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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Self pointer in limited record
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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:48:32 +0200
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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:14:43 +0200, Markus E L wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote:
> 
>> (I have no respect to singletons. They might have some sacral meaning for
>> some OO proponents, but that was always beyond my understanding.)
> 
> What about your filesystem? You pass around a filesystem object to all
> functions that use a filesystem?

I do File_Type.

> And a console object to all those that use a console?

Is it Standard_Error or Standard_Output today? (:-))

Though, if I correctly understand the idea beyond your examples, they refer
to the computational environment. If so, then it is not an object and it
cannot be an object. It does not belong to the solution space, it is where
that space exists = another language, outside. The part of computational
environment which can be expressed in the language immediately looses it
magical singleton properties. (DRM guys have a problem... (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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