Status: IN
The GoF catalog is deliberately bounded in both breadth and depth: it explicitly excludes concurrency, distributed programming, real-time, and domain-specific patterns, and disclaims being a complete pattern language — establishing that design patterns are a curated collection of proven solutions within a defined scope, not a comprehensive design theory.
Explicit exclusions and pattern-language disclaimer define the catalog as intentionally bounded
Depends on (SL): gof-scope-excludes-concurrency-distributed, gof-patterns-not-complete-pattern-language