Winging its way around the super highspeed secret secure CPAN network is release 1.00 of Class::Factory a simple little module that makes it easier to create different classes of objects depending on a type. Eric Andreychek (of OpenThought fame) gave me a patch (with docs!) along with a few suggestions to make some changes that I’d already considered making. (You can find out more here whenever search.cpan.org gets refreshed.)