From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-11-16T03:43:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#singleton_class

itsme213 wrote:

> "Florian Gross" <flgr@ccan.de> wrote
> 
>>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"?
> 
> dedicated_class
> owned_class
> private_class
> individual_class
> individualized_class
> personal_class
> personalized_class

Sorry, I was talking about the pattern that lets you only create a 
single instance of a class. See singleton.rb in Ruby's standard library.

Heh, I just did a quick Google search for "singleton.rb" to see where it 
is being used and found that there's already an RCR for renaming it on 
http://www.rcrchive.net/rcr/show/246