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On 17-Nov-14 20:08, Hubert wrote:
> I guess in Ada you could have a package with a type and a variable in
> the body but you would still need a way to access that variable somehow
> in other packages, either through a parameter or globally and that's my
> question. What is the best way to access such an object

Generics?
You could have everything that depends on that singleton have its 
package (or accessor-function) passed in as a parameter.