What is a singleton?

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

I've seen several threads here about singletons and implementing them, but
what the heck are they?

 

[Mike Wahler]

I've seen several threads here about singletons and implementing them, but
what the heck are they?

A type which can be only instantiated once.

-Mike

 

[jeffc]

I've seen several threads here about singletons and implementing them, but
what the heck are they?

A class of which you only want 1 instance created in your program.

 

[Alexander Terekhov]

I've seen several threads here about singletons and implementing them, but
what the heck are they?

Confederate rangers whose guerrilla bands frequently attacked and disrupted
Union supply lines in Virginia and Maryland during the American Civil War.

regards,
alexander.

 

[Ron Natalie]

Confederate rangers whose guerrilla bands frequently attacked and disrupted
Union supply lines in Virginia and Maryland during the American Civil War.

I thought it was when you only had one card in a given suit, you can count it
for two points when evaluating your bridge hand (unless you have unprotected
honors).

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

I thought it was when you only had one card in a given suit, you can count it
for two points when evaluating your bridge hand (unless you have unprotected
honors).

Well, yes, I knew that. Unprotected honors get a penalty, so K is probably
around 4 points, Q is 3, and J is 2. And of course, a singleton in your
*partner's* suit is likely to lead to some unpleasantness

 

[Ron Natalie]

Well, yes, I knew that. Unprotected honors get a penalty, so K is probably
around 4 points, Q is 3, and J is 2. And of course, a singleton in your
*partner's* suit is likely to lead to some unpleasantness

How's your aunt in Chicago?

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

How's your aunt in Chicago?

*blinks* What?

 

[Ron Natalie]

*blinks* What?

Sorry, inside joke. Where I used to play we had an ersatz Chicago Convention
where if you had a really bad hand:

N: How's your aunt in Chicago?
S: (if they have a bad had as well) She died.
N: I only have 12 cards.
S: I have 14 cards.

Both then throw their hands face up into the middle of the table.

 

[Alexander Terekhov]

Well, yes, I knew that. Unprotected honors get a penalty, so K is probably
around 4 points, Q is 3, and J is 2. And of course, a singleton in your
*partner's* suit is likely to lead to some unpleasantness

Yeah. K singleton, Q singleton... "Real Men play Gin".

regards,
alexander.

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Sorry, inside joke. Where I used to play we had an ersatz Chicago Convention
where if you had a really bad hand:

N: How's your aunt in Chicago?
S: (if they have a bad had as well) She died.
N: I only have 12 cards.
S: I have 14 cards.

LOL!!! I'm sure that didn't work more than a couple of times

 

[Default User]

*blinks* What?

http://www.bridgeguys.com/CGlossary/GlossC.html


See "Chicago Convention".




Brian Rodenborn

 

[Ralf Schneeweiß]

A singleton is one of the Design Patterns which are described in the book:
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides: Design Patterns.
Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software. ISBN 0-201-63361-2

Ralf
www.oop-trainer.de

 

[J. Campbell]

Sorry, inside joke. Where I used to play we had an ersatz Chicago Convention
where if you had a really bad hand:

N: How's your aunt in Chicago?
S: (if they have a bad had as well) She died.
N: I only have 12 cards.
S: I have 14 cards.

Both then throw their hands face up into the middle of the table.

LOL...too bad this won't work with Yahoo! bridge. I'm adding it to my
bidding profile pronto!