# Staticish

Make a singleton class that wraps the methods so they appear like class methods

## Description

This provides a mechanism whereby a class can be treated as a "singleton"
and all of its methods wrapped such that if they are called as "class"
or "static" methods they will actually be called on the single instance.
It does this by applying a role to the class itself which provides a
constructor "new()"  that will always return the same instance of the
object, and by applying a role to the classes Meta class which over-rides
the "add_method" method in order to wrap the programmer supplied methods
such that if the method is called on the type object (i.e. as a class
method) then the single instance will be obtained and the method will
be called with that as the invocant.

This might be useful for a class such as a configuration parser or
logger where a single set of parameters will be used globally within an
application and it doesn't make sense to pass a single object around.

It may not deal with every possible use case properly, but it largely
does what I need it to.  Suggestions, patches etc are welcome.

## Installation

Assuming you have a working Rakudo Perl 6 installation you should be able to
install this with *zef* :

   # From the source directory

   zef install .

   # Remote installation

   zef install Staticish


## Support

Suggestions/patches are welcomed via github at https://github.com/jonathanstowe/Staticish/issues

## Licence

This is free software.

Please see the [LICENCE](LICENCE) file in the distribution

© Jonathan Stowe 2015 - 2019

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