Discussion on boilerplate for code tightly bound to OOP

[Michał Kłeczek]

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>  - A better way to define singletons.  Right now, "singleton" is just a pattern; Scala, for example, raises this to a language feature ("object Foo { }"). 

I’ve always found metaclasses idea from Erik Allen’s et. al. paper intriguing in this regard:
https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/neal-glew/mcrt/Fortress/p109-allen.pdf <https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/neal-glew/mcrt/Fortress/p109-allen.pdf>