From: Pierre-Charles David <Pierre-Charles.David@...>
Date: 2001-05-15T21:16:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15157] Re: initialize overload

Chris Moline wrote:
> 
> 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??

On the web, see:
	http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesignPatterns
	http://hillside.net/patterns/

And the book that started it all: "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable
Objec-Oriented Software" by Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Vlissides (aka "The
Gang of Four"), published by Addison-Wesley.