I'm slowly picking up the various C# programming idioms, but I seem to have run across a problem that seems simple but that I cannot manage to solve in a clean OO manner.<br><br>The problem: I want a ...

Immutability is a feature of functional programming languages that makes programs easier to write, test, and maintain. However, immutability is not supported by many imperative programming languages.

How do I declare a semi-global (in-namespace) singleton? C# help tells me baldly and briefly it's not like C/C++ (or Pascal or Ada for that matter) and references/variables can't be declared in ...