Your comment about spending more time thinking about the API resonates with me, it seems that there are so many ways to accomplish the same thing in perl that i spend a lot of time like this thinking about how to go about the problem!

In terms of why the factory would be returning objects of its own class, i thought of implementing it in such a way that the factory method and the constructor (which the factory would use) would both be methods of the same class.

With some further thought, i think what i'm essentially trying to do, it to configure a class in one operation, before creating the objects (which all share that configuration) in multiple subsequent operations. It's probably something i could accomplish by using class methods/variables before using the constructor to create the object. But then i'm not sure how that would work without creating a class handle to begin with (an object)?

All this is to avoid passing the data structure to the object as a single attribute, i'd rather create the object directly from the data structure. That seems cleaner to me.

Its an interesting thought either way.

In reply to Re^2: Using a factory class to return objects of the same class by Amblikai
in thread Using a factory class to return objects of the same class by Amblikai

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