but also the next sentence: > ...The important aspect of this pattern is that it lets decorators appear anywhere a VisualComponent can. That way clients genera

but also the next sentence: > ...The important aspect of this pattern is that it lets decorators appear anywhere a VisualComponent can. That way clients generally can't tell the difference between a decorated component and an undecorated one, and so they don't depend at all on the decoration. and further on: > The decorator conforms to the interface of the component it decorates so that its presence is transparent to the component's clients.