Encapsulate Constructors With Factory Methods

From JoshuaKerievsky's "RefactoringToPatterns" paper. (See that page for link to PDF of paper.)

"Many constructors on a class make it hard to decide which constructor to call during development"
"Encapsulate the constructors with intention-revealing Factory Methods"

This pattern may address some of the issues on the LimitConstructorArguments page.

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