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In the phrase "concrete type", the word 'concrete' has been wikified, but this links it to the page concrete, which is hardly appropriate. It's not quite clear what article it should link to; the nearest I can come up with is Abstraction_(computer_science), which unfortunately doesn't mention the antonym 'concrete' until the 'Considerations' section. For now, I've pointed it at the disambiguation page. 131.111.202.32 (talk) 11:44, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The text of this article almost completely overlaps part of the text in the article factory method pattern, to which this concept is closely related. There is no point in keeping identical copies of text in two separate places. JIP | Talk19:28, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That's not true. Factory method pattern is a method to create factories in object oriented languages. You cannot apply such a pattern in non-object-oriented languages such as C. Nevertheless, you can implement a factory in C using dynamic memory. The theoretical concept and the pattern should be kept appart
