Abstract Factory

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Re: Abstract Factory by lachoy (Parson) on Oct 04, 2005 at 00:27 UTC
In the GoF the Factory and Abstract Factory are two different patterns. A Factory is another object that creates objects for you; an Abstract Factory creates other Factories (which create objects for you). And FWIW, the Class::Factory module on CPAN takes care of the Factory part of that and it's got pretty extensive docs which might help you learn more about this. (I say that as the author of those docs...) Chris M-x auto-bs-mode	[reply]
Re: Abstract Factory by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 03, 2005 at 22:37 UTC
Hi, Have a look at this Perl.com article on Design patterns. Hope this helps Martin	[reply]
Re^2: Abstract Factory by Khatri (Scribe) on Oct 03, 2005 at 22:49 UTC
I've already seen it http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/09/refererents.html	[reply]
Re^3: Abstract Factory by skx (Parson) on Oct 04, 2005 at 10:53 UTC
What part don't you understand? Steve --	[reply]
Re^4: Abstract Factory by Khatri (Scribe) on Oct 05, 2005 at 17:44 UTC
Re^5: Abstract Factory by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2005 at 06:05 UTC
Re^5: Abstract Factory by Khatri (Scribe) on Oct 05, 2005 at 21:11 UTC
Re^6: Abstract Factory by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Oct 06, 2005 at 19:22 UTC
Re: Abstract Factory by sh1tn (Priest) on Oct 03, 2005 at 23:11 UTC
Perldesignpatterns. Maybe this reading will help.	[reply]
Re: Abstract Factory by BUU (Prior) on Oct 04, 2005 at 00:02 UTC
`package Factory; sub get_new { my( $class, $type ) = @_; return $type->new; }` [download] Am I missing anything?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Abstract Factory by Khatri (Scribe) on Oct 05, 2005 at 17:10 UTC
so $class will have name of the class and $type will have type of class suppose I have class A, clas B,... if I want to have new class a of type A should I get by get_new(a,A); is that correct ?	[reply]
Re^3: Abstract Factory by BUU (Prior) on Oct 05, 2005 at 23:09 UTC
Not quite. It's designed to be a class method, so you would call it like: `Factory->get_new("A")` which implicitly sends "Factory" as the first argument to the method.	[reply] [d/l]