Re: Ada Singleton Pattern

[mheaney@on2.com (Matthew Heaney)]

Pylinius <p@y.com> wrote in message news:<414CAC2B.60400@y.com>...
> Luca Stasio wrote:
> > Hi, there is a way to implement the Singleton Pattern in Ada?
> > There are some examples out there?
> > Thanx.
> 
> package Example_Of_Singleton is
> 
>     procedure Do_Something;
> 
>     procedure Do_Something_Else;
> 
> end;
> 
> 
> Bring it on you stupid GangOfFour bastards, with your idiotic bloated
> idioms that inculcate and contaminate perfectly good alternative
> languages!


I alluded to this in my previous post.  To be fair, though, you can do
this in C++ too:

namespace Example_Of_Singleton
{
   void do_something();
   void do_something_else();
}

One advantage of using a type is if the type is tagged.  If there's a
singleton instance of type in the class, then you can use that as a
value of an object whose type is class-wide.

However, most of the time you don't need all of this infrastructure,
and the package/namespace technique is perfectly adequate.

-Matt