Re: Ant: [Caml-list] The "Objective" part of Objective Caml

[Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>]

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On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Daniel Bünzli wrote:

>
> Le 8 nov. 05 à 03:15, Brian Hurt a écrit :
>
>> So patterns like singletons are hard to implement with Ocaml objects.
>
> Don't you have immediate objects [1] to do singletons ?

No- because immediate objects still allocate a new object every time they 
are evaluated.  I suppose you could do:

let factory =
     let myobject = new myclass in
     fun () -> myobject
;;

and do a factory method, but there is no way (that I know of) to prevent 
someone else from doing:
     let myotherobject = new myclass
and allocating a different object of the same class.

No, the proper way to do singletons in Ocaml is with modules, not objects.

Brian