Re: simple method dispatch question

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: Re: simple method dispatch question
• From: "Michael T. Richter" <mtr@ottawa.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:30:01 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Half-Baked Software
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"Chris Double" <chris@double.co.nz> wrote in message
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>> Jason, you just solved a minor question I've had ever since I
>> started to experiment with Dylan: What use are singletons?

> Not much really since singletons are practically supported by the
> language. But here's an example of a 'singleton' class as per the GOF
> book as presented by Andy Armstrong a while ago:

I don't mean the GoF singleton here.  I mean the Dylan language construct
which was unfortunately named the same thing.  :-)

I was always wondering why I'd want to have an argument to a function with a
specific value instead of a specific type.  Now I see why.

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