Class/Static Constants in Delphi

Question

In Delphi, I want to be able to create an private object that\'s associated with a class, and access it from all instances of that class. In Java, I\'d use:

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Answer 1

Well, it's not beauty, but works fine in Delphi 7:

TMyObject = class
pulic
    class function MySharedObject: TMySharedObject; // I'm lazy so it will be read only
end;

implementation

...

class function MySharedObject: TMySharedObject;
{$J+} const MySharedObjectInstance: TMySharedObject = nil; {$J-} // {$J+} Makes the consts writable
begin
    // any conditional initialization ...
   if (not Assigned(MySharedObjectInstance)) then
       MySharedObjectInstance = TMySharedOject.Create(...);
  Result := MySharedObjectInstance;
end;

I'm curently using it to build singletons objects.