On Monday 15 November 2004 06:52 pm, Gavin Sinclair wrote: | No, because of historical reasons, and the ability to distinguish | between two different uses of "singleton". (Besides, the Singleton | Pattern has fallen foul of OO purists.) | | I say go for it, Matz. I have an idea. How about a compromise. Rather then use the term 'singleton class' (the per object kind), lets use the slightly different term, 'singular-class'. That's quite nearly the same, but is just different enough to prevent confusion. Would that be alright with everyone? Matz? T.