Anti-patters

[gar1t]

A few people asked about "anti patterns" --- or patterns that one might want to avoid, or bad patterns.

This is a great idea! How would we do this?

[doubleyou]

Start with an "anti-patterns" page maybe? :)

[andytill]

Showing a bad way of doing something could still promote its use, if it happened to be more relevant to a problem than one of the patterns. I remember this is how the Waterfall model of development took off.

If anti-patterns will be covered, each one should at least have an alternative, positive pattern.