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Generating Objects

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Creating objects is a messy business. So, many object-oriented designs deal with nice, clean abstract classes, taking advantage of the impressive flexibility afforded by polymorphism (the switching of concrete implementations at runtime). To achieve this flexibility, though, I must devise strategies for object generation. This is the topic I will look at in this chapter.

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Zandstra, M. (2016). Generating Objects. In: PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1996-6_9

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