#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; package Class; sub new { bless {}, $_[0] }; 1; package Class::SubclassA; sub new { bless {}, $_[0]; }; 1; package Class::SubclassB; sub new { return bless {}, $_[0]; }; 1; package ClassFactory; my %creation_hash = ( SubclassA => sub { Class::SubclassA->new() }, SubclassB => sub { Class::SubclassB->new() } ); sub create { shift; print $creation_hash{$_[0]}, "\n"; return $creation_hash{$_[0]}->(); } 1; package main; my $a = ClassFactory->create( "SubclassA" ); my $b = ClassFactory->create( "SubclassB" ); print $a, "\n"; print $b, "\n";