Re: Ada Singleton Pattern

[Pylinius <p@y.com>]

Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 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
> 

Thank you, and thanks for Charles, which essentially
achieves the capabilities that the Ada gods intended
without being a whore to the mindless C++/Java mindset.