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On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 7:54:52 PM UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> Many of the "design patterns" are actually implementation patterns to work
> around deficiencies in the languages used in the book. An obvious example is the
> "singleton pattern". In Ada, a singleton is simply a pkg. It's only a problem
> that needs a pattern in languages that lack modules.

But a singleton would be instantiated when the "Get_Instance" function gets
called by client code, not when a module gets loaded.  Or does Ada load a package
at the first call?