Status: IN
Creational patterns serve as enabling infrastructure across all GoF categories: the controlled-sharing meta-pattern (Singleton registries for State, Factory caches for Flyweight) demonstrates that creational mechanisms are not confined to object lifecycle management but provide essential sharing infrastructure that behavioral and structural patterns depend on — extending the claim that creational patterns enable composition-based reuse to include cross-category sharing services.
Depth-3 — controlled-sharing (depth-1) + creational-enable-composition (depth-2) reveal creational patterns as cross-category infrastructure, not just lifecycle management
Depends on (SL): controlled-sharing-meta-pattern, creational-patterns-enable-composition-reuse