From: Chris Moline Date: 2001-05-15T21:08:37+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:15156] Re: initialize overload On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:10:04AM +0900, Jim Menard wrote: > Myclass.newFromText("text", "number"). I believe this is an example of the > Factory pattern. Reading this list brings with it a lot of references to patterns. What are they and what books/sites, etc would you reccomend??