44How to Decorate Services
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7- When overriding an existing definition (e.g. when applying the `Decorator pattern `_),
8- the original service is lost:
7+ When overriding an existing definition, the original service is lost:
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109.. configuration-block ::
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@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ the original service is lost:
1817 #  this replaces the old app.mailer definition with the new one, the 
1918 #  old definition is lost 
2019 app.mailer : 
21-  class : AppBundle\DecoratingMailer   
20+  class : AppBundle\NewMailer   
2221
2322  .. code-block :: xml 
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@@ -32,26 +31,26 @@ the original service is lost:
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3332 <!--  this replaces the old app.mailer definition with the new 
3433 one, the old definition is lost -->  
35-  <service  id =" app.mailer"   class =" AppBundle\DecoratingMailer "   /> 
34+  <service  id =" app.mailer"   class =" AppBundle\NewMailer "   /> 
3635 </services > 
3736 </container > 
3837
3938  .. code-block :: php 
4039
4140 use AppBundle\Mailer; 
42-  use AppBundle\DecoratingMailer ; 
41+  use AppBundle\NewMailer ; 
4342
4443 $container->register('app.mailer', Mailer::class); 
4544
4645 // this replaces the old app.mailer definition with the new one, the 
4746 // old definition is lost 
48-  $container->register('app.mailer', DecoratingMailer ::class); 
47+  $container->register('app.mailer', NewMailer ::class); 
4948
5049 Most of the time, that's exactly what you want to do. But sometimes,
51- you might want to decorate the old one instead. In this case, the 
52- old service should be kept around to be able to reference it in the 
53- new one. This configuration replaces ``app.mailer `` with a new one, but keeps 
54- a reference of the old one   as ``app.decorating_mailer.inner ``:
50+ you might want to decorate the old one instead (i.e. apply the ` Decorator pattern `_). 
51+ In this case, the  old service should be kept around to be able to reference
52+ it in the  new one. This configuration replaces ``app.mailer `` with a new one,
53+ but keeps  a reference of the old one as ``app.decorating_mailer.inner ``:
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5655.. configuration-block ::
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