From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-04-23T22:44:03+09:00
Subject: Re: should method() returns singletons ?

il Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:45:18 +0200, "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net>
ha scritto::


>
>We had this discussion some weeks ago, when someone else posted a quite
>similar question (method as hash key).  AFAIR Matz wanted to consider
>changing #hash and #eql so Method instances can be reasonably used as hash
>keys.

this makes sense, but is not what I need. 
I wanted to add stuff to a method object (namely a is_a_test_method?
method), and be able to access the same method later and check if it
has that property (if it responds to is_a_test_method?)

Note that I needed it just for some little playing (copying  the
examples from the article at onjava.com about annotations in java 1.5)
so I won't bother if I can't have it :)

>Singletons might have some drawbacks that he does not want to pay the
>price for.  The major issue is that they have to be stored somewhere and
>thus take up mem even when they are no longer used.  Making Method hash
>key compatible is completely sufficient IMHO.
>

Yes I see what you mean. thanks for the answer.