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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011 Kevin Ryde
# This file is part of constant-defer.
#
# constant-defer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
# by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any
# later version.
#
# constant-defer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
# Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
# with constant-defer. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# Usage: ./instance.pl
#
# This is roughly how to press constant::defer into service for a once-only
# object instance creation.
#
# The creation code here is entirely within the instance() routine so after
# it's run it's discarded, which may save a few bytes of memory. If you
# wanted other object instances as well as a shared one then you'd split out
# a usual sort of new().
#
# The $class parameter can help subclassing. A call like
#
# MyClass::SubClass->instance
#
# blesses into that subclass. But effectively there's only one instance
# behind the two MyClass and MyClass::SubClass and whichever runs first is
# the class created. If you only ever want one of the two then that can be
# fine, otherwise it might be very bad.
#
# There's no reason not to take other arguments in the instance() creation,
# except that they only have an effect on the first call, so it may be more
# confusing than flexible.
#
# Generally you're best off using Class::Singleton (or
# Class::Singleton::Weak) but if you've got constant::defer for other things
# then this is compact and cute.
#
package MyClass;
use strict;
use constant::defer instance => sub {
my ($class) = @_;
return bless { foo => 123 }, $class;
};
sub do_something {
print "do something ...\n";
}
package main;
printf "instance %s\n", MyClass->instance;
printf "instance %s\n", MyClass->instance;
my $obj = MyClass->instance;
$obj->do_something;
exit 0;
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