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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada Singleton Pattern
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:04:17 +0200
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* 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.