In a large application I'm working on, a dispatch table creates a new object

  $page = A:B:C->new();
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Things have been getting kind of big lately, and I've realized I need more subclasses. Rather than doing this:

  $page = A:B:C:D1->new();
  $page = A:B:C:D2->new();
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Perhaps I should rephrase: my code is making A:B:C when I should probably be making A:B:C:D1 -- but I want the init code in A:B:C to realize that i should be using a subclass instead of the parent class, and then automagically either morph into a subclass, access the subclass methods, or do something that achieves the result so that:

  $page = A:B:C->new();
  $page->check_if_i_should_be_a_subclass_instead();
  $page->render(); # render method from A:B:C or A:B:C:D1  based on ab
+ove method result
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