Re^2: OO: Factory vs. "Seed" (?) pattern

Good catch. I meant this

# UNTESTED
# factory approach
my $factory = AnimalFoodFactory->new; 
my $food_object = $factory->prepare_correct_chow(animal=> 'lion');
# now ref $food_object eq 'LionFood'
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Re^3: OO: Factory vs. "Seed" (?) pattern by gaal (Parson) on May 14, 2005 at 10:48 UTC
A factory is normally implemented as a class method ("static method" in Java parlance). You can do this then, as dragonchild pointed to above. `my $food_object = AnimalFoodFactory->prepare_correct_chow(animal => 'lion');` Incidentally, there's a technique for cheap aliasing of long package names that can in a pinch do some of the work of factories. Take a look at my home node.	[reply] [d/l]