"Florian Gross" <flgr / ccan.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2vsa7rF2ot432U1 / uni-berlin.de...
> trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
>
> > On Monday 15 November 2004 12:28 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > | I'd call them singleton classes.  Any objection?
> > |
> > |        matz.
> >
> > Yes, cause of singleton pattern.
>
> Objection to the objection: The singleton pattern is not widely used in
> Ruby. Couldn't we rename the implementation of it? Maybe something like
> "SingleInstanceClass"?

But this will have more impact on existing code.  I vote for conservative
behavior here: leave Singleton as it is and invent a good name for the
method that returns TCFKASC (who will guess this? Ruby quiz #13.5... :-))

Kind regards

    robert