no singletons, please (was Re: an example Re: Connecting to running win32com server)

[Alex Martelli]

"spahievi" <spahievi at vega.bg> wrote in message
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> AM> in the "instances sharing state" pattern (which needs a flashier
> AM> name:-), one blissfully gives out instances at will, and just
> AM> has each of them delegate its state.
>
> What about "Proxy to Singleton"? ;)

It's slightly more general than that.  For example, one place
to which I like to "delegate the state" in many case of
"instances sharing state" is a relational database... not
really "a Singleton" (in the Design Pattern sense).


Alex