Builder definition from Gang of 4 - Separate the construction of a complex object from its representation so that the same construction process can create different representations.
Here is a link:
http://www.fact-index.com/b/bu/builder_pattern.html Some of the creational patterns are a little blurry to me. I created a class called ArraySQL that allows you to type in a sql
string and I parse that String to create the appropriate objects behind the scenes. The developer that uses my class has no idea what objects I create from there request. I think that fits the builder pattern as described above, but most examples don't use parsed Strings to build objects on the fly, so I'm not sure if it is the builder pattern or not.
Here is an example of ArraySQL. Note that different objects are created behind the scenes depending on whether a display column is a function or wha t type of where clause is being used i.e. in, =, <=, != etc.
