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Subject: Re: Self pointer in limited record
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From: Markus E L
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Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:33:43 +0200
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:33:09 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> (The true O-O programmer might suggest that we should simply
>> pass an additional object-as-module parameter to every
>> package subprogram... )
>
> Yes, it is better to keep packages stateless.

Not if they are singletons, i.e. objects of which only one instance
can occur in the program. Then they are better modeled as packages.

Regards -- Markus