Status: IN
The GoF catalog employs a recurring controlled-sharing meta-pattern across categories: State subclasses share instances via Singleton registries (behavioral pattern leveraging creational infrastructure), while Flyweight shares intrinsic-state objects via Factory lookup (structural pattern leveraging creational infrastructure), both demonstrating that creational patterns serve as sharing infrastructure for other categories.
Depth-1 — two independent base observations (State-as-Singleton and Flyweight-via-Factory) converge on a cross-category meta-pattern where creational mechanisms serve as sharing infrastructure for behavioral and structural patterns
Depends on (SL): gof-state-subclasses-often-singletons, flyweight-factory-ensures-sharing