cool. I'll check it out.

On Tue September 18 2007, David Mitchell wrote:
> Nope. Not about the GoF Singleton pattern at all.
>
> More like Ruby singleton methods. Which is about an instance or
> instances that have methods that aren't defined in the class for all
> objects.
>
> http://map.squeak.org/accountbyid/04ec7571-cb7e-47ea-b1fc-218f7ec45adc/pack
>age/9d63f342-30e3-4db2-8695-3d65ccf28100
>
> "This package adds the #becomeSingleton method to Object, which will
> transform the receiver into an instance of a new, anonymous subclass
> of its original class. This lets you add or redefine methods on an
> object-by-object basis."
>
> On 9/18/07, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Tue September 18 2007, Chris Muller wrote:
> > > Avi's "Singletons" package might be what you're looking for..
> >
> > Hmm... Is that anything like the Singleton pattern of having only one
> > instance of a class? That's not what I'm looking for. I want many
> > instances.
> >
> > > On 9/18/07, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to override an instance method w/o subclassing?
> > > > For instance, class Morph has a method that returns true, but I want
> > > > the that
> > > > method to return false when instancing some types of Morphs and
> > > > others not. (there is no setter/getter for this method.) Is there a
> > > > way to do that w/o adding a setter/getter to Morph or subclassing the
> > > > different Morphs?