Singleton?
Jason Orendorff
jason at jorendorff.com
Tue Jan 29 21:04:29 EST 2002
James T. Dennis wrote:
> Now, unto other patterns. Anyone show me an example of a flyweight?
The way Python strings work is reminiscent of Flyweight.
If you have
x = "squoob"
y = x[0]
then Python assigns to y one of its cached 1-character string
objects. Thus grabbing individual characters out of a string
does not ordinarily create new string objects. (But x does
not maintain pointers to 6 subobjects. So it's not a real
Flyweight. It's only a cache after all.)
Of course, this isn't at all what you asked for. (C:
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