How does Mr. Martelli's Borg recipe work ?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth John Roth:
  [...]
> I can kind of understand the justification for the Borg pattern
> in Python releases before 2.2, because there was no way of
> creating a true singleton in those releases. However, in 2.2 and
> later, it's really easy to create one using new style classes.
  [...implementing singletons with __new__...]
> That being the case, I'd like to see the Borg pattern go the way
> of a fondly remembered hack that is no longer necessary.

Just out of curiosity: why do you prefer singletons to Borgs in
the first place?

(I don't see Borg as a hack to get the behaviour of a singleton; I
see it as a more direct way to solve the problem which singletons
are supposed to solve.  Thus to me Borg is actually preferable, in
those exceedingly rare cases when that problem actually arises.)

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Steven Taschuk                             staschuk at telusplanet.net
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