Re: [Xotcl] Help with singleton design pattern

From: Gustaf Neumann <neumann_at_wu-wien.ac.at>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:03:56 +0200

On Saturday 19 April 2003 07:40, Michael A. Cleverly wrote:
> As I'm starting to learn XOTcl, I decided to try and implement a singleton
> design pattern as an educational exercise.

 Dear Michael,

 Uwe has already answered the filter-part. To solve the singleton
 problem, there is much less code necessary. The following example
 uses a metaclass that provides an instproc "new":

==========================================
Class Singleton -superclass Class
Singleton instproc new args {
  expr {[my exists instance] ?
        [my set instance] : [my set instance [next]]}
}
==========================================

 A new singleton can be created in a declarative way, and
 all calls to "new" will return the same instance (you can
 also raise errors, if you prefer)

==========================================
Singleton MyClass
puts "1. [MyClass new]"
puts "2. [MyClass new]"
==========================================

 Certainly the same maechanism can be applied on "create" as well.
 In the current XOTcl version, you have to duplicate the instproc
 for "create", in the forthcoming xotcl version registering a single
 instproc on create will be sufficient (in 1.0.2, the method new
 calls directly the implementation of create, the next version
 will go through the dispatcher).

 best regards
-gn

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