Re: Ada Singleton Pattern

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Dmitry A. Kazakov:

> Only if the scope of the singleton is unknown, and so need to be dynamic.
> But it is not the case for the example given. The scope of the singleton is
> one of the package. The package itself can be nested (not to be at the
> library level). So clients are prevented from accessing it after its
> finalization by the compiler.

Oh, come on, you should be able to abstract a bit from the concrete
code you gave. 8-) Often, singletons are used to manage external
resources, and some cleanup operation is required.