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EGarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> Therefore there is no way to postpone the creation of a singleton
> until client code needs it, by relying on package elaboration alone,
> right?  Therefore Ada -- too -- needs the Singleton pattern.

Not quite sure of the use case for that! I'd have thought it more likely
that you'd need to control the order of initialization.

But you're right that sometimes you can't rely on elaboration order
alone.