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		querulous on May 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OTP 23 a process is a singleton even tho the code it runs is reused

brokencode on May 13, 2020 [–]

I’m not sure what you mean. A singleton is something your program only has one of. You can have any number of processes. By your logic, every object in an object-oriented language is also a singleton.

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