> On 13 Feb 2019, at 12:22, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/02/2019 17:18, Cyril Ferlicot wrote:
>
>> A quick question: is it possible to use traits to define class methods?
>>> For example, could the popular singleton pattern consisting of the
>>> three class methods #uniqueInstance, #new, and #reset plus the instance
>>> variable uniqueInstance be packaged as a trait?
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes it is possible.
>
> Thanks for your encouragement!
>
> I ended up trying exactly that example, and it works just fine:
>
> https://github.com/khinsen/SingletonTrait
>
It is amazing how much better this feels now that Traits can define state, too…
(compared to before where it was just methods).
https://github.com/khinsen/SingletonTrait/blob/master/SingletonTrait/SingletonTrait.trait.st
I would even want to have (and use) a Trait like that in the system by default.
Marcus
