Re: Difference between Factory and Abstract Factory

On 25 Mar, 17:47, EvilOld...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I've read the gang of four, and various things I've googled, but I'm
just too stupid to really get the difference between a factory and an
abstract factory.
Help me please...

There is no, "Factory." That's a generic term (at least in the context
of GOF).

There are two patterns: abstract factory and factory method.

If anything, the generic term, "Factory," means something that will
return an implementation that accords to a given interface. The
abstract factory and factory method are just two different ways to
return this implementation.

..ed

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