From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T03:42:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this a kind of design patterns?

Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> On 3/22/06, Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is this one of design patterns, or just a simple idiom? [...]
> 
> That's the "Factory Method" pattern.  It's handy when you want
> SomeClass.new to return an instance of SomeOtherClass, or just when
> you want things to be easier to read.

Hmmm ... It's not the GOF Factory Method pattern.  It doesn't even solve 
the same problem that the Factory Method pattern is designed to address.

But it is a useful technique ... pattern or not.

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