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Subject: Re: Little people supporting Ada, possibly through AdaCore?
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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Le Sun, 06 May 2012 18:26:59 +0200, <okellogg@users.sourceforge.net> a
> écrit:
>>> I suppose you could invent a 'package' Global or Library for
>>> library-level subprograms to live in, cf Standard. Only if it helps!
>>
>> Yes. As you probably noticed, I've already twisted UML "class" to
>> represent Ada package because UML "package" does not allow
>> subprograms.
>
> I believe that should be OK to say those classes stands for singleton
> objets classes. But I'm not versed at UML, which I know just too much
> few.  Is there a way to apply a singleton stereotype to classes in
> UML?

You certainly could, but in this case it makes much more sense (I think)
to say what you mean the diagram to represent (the "profile") in plain
words.

Oliver's use is rather more like what Rational Rose used to call a
"utility class" (one which has no instances) than a singleton (which ash
one instance).