# Factory Pattern in Elixir?

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** design, patterns\
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/factory-pattern-in-elixir/20100 "2019-02-12T06:30:58Z")\
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> [@sasajuric](#):
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> Instead, I’d make it explicit:

This explicitness could even by a map in a config file for example for ease of changing later or downstream. 🙂

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