"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker / jump.net> writes:

> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / netlab.co.jp>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 9:55 AM
> 
> > Hmm, I don't know which is better.  As non native English speaker, I
> > have no idea about the nuance of the word `singleton'.
> 
> I would guess that most English speakers (except for maybe card players)
> have probably never heard of 'singleton' (but I don't watch enough TV to be
> sure :-). The only places I've encountered it with any frequency (long ago)
> was in connection with math set theory, and sometimes I think in connection
> with analysis of (data structure) algorithms.

And of course the Singleton pattern from the GoF, which is probably
most programmers biggest single exposure to the word (and one reason
why it is somewhat confusing in the Ruby sense).

Dave