From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T11:29:33+09:00
Subject: Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class

Hi,

In message "Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class"
    on Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:22:02 +0900, "jonathan <zjll9@imail.etsu.edu>" <zjll9@imail.etsu.edu> writes:

|How do you all think the term 'static class' fits?

Nope, just because it's not static at all.

|How do you actually implement the singleton pattern in Ruby?  Not being 
|able to return a self ptr from initialize seems to stump me.

Four ideas:

  * A plain object + singleton methods
  * A module with singleton methods
  * singleton library in the standard libraries
  * An ordinary class and pre-allocated object with convention not to
    create any other objects.

							matz.