Creational Design Patterns in C#: Building Flexible and Scalable Software

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4. Prototype Pattern

Vaskaran Sarcar¹  

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Kolkata, West Bengal, India

 

The Prototype pattern provides an alternative method for instantiating objects by copying (or cloning) an instance of an existing object. This chapter explains this pattern and its usefulness with simple examples.

Concept

The Gang of Four (GoF) defined the intent of the Prototype pattern as follows:

Specify the kinds of objects to create using a prototypical instance, and create new objects by copying this prototype.

If you notice the pattern’s intent closely, you’ll see that the core idea ...