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- we could have an explicit interface, e.g.
Lister, to statically type the implementations but because of duck-typing this is optional - we could use a chain tree instead of a list, e.g.
if (animal.hasBackbone())delegate toVertebrateHandlerelse delegate toInvertebrateHandler - we could always pass down the chain even if we processed a request
- we could decide at some point to not respond and not pass down the chain
- we could use Groovy's meta-programming capabilities to pass unknown methods down the chain