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From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:57:49 GMT, Jeffrey Carter
<jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote:


>> A (non-generic) package is simply a means of encapsulating something
>> that can be instantiated as an object - e.g. a tagged type.

>Bollards! A non-generic package may be the only instance of a design
>concept:

Good point - I can accept that and, in this case the package could be
considered as an object. I'm convinced, especially as this is a means
of implementing the Singleton pattern (which I looked at in some depth
a while ago).