Factory Classes

[Paul Wuersig]

The Factory Classes Elements page lists the following facts about
factory classes:
<elements>
Factory classes only support a limited number of instances.

They're implemented with private constructors and public static
methods.
</elements>

However, in the Factory Classes Example, the factory class neither
supports a limited number of instances, nor is it implemented with
private constructors. Either I'm missing something really fundamental
here, or there's a mistake.

Paul.

references:

Factory Classes Elements page:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/downing/cs378/elements/FactoryClasses.html

factory class example:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/downing/cs378/lang/FactoryClasses.c++

[Glenn Downing]

Thanks, Paul. I've improved the description.

On 5/1/05 1:40 PM, in article
1114972853.9...@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Paul Wuersig"
<paulw...@gmail.com> wrote:

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