Funny how some sub­jects seem to attract catchy titles like flies. A lot of very clever peo­ple have writ­ten vol­umes about “The Sim­ple­ton Pat­tern”, and “Sin­gle­toni­tis” (bah, dead link, let’s use this instead then).

Many peo­ple are in love with the Sin­gle­ton pat­tern. Oth­ers — a small minor­ity, I sus­pect — con­sider it a mis­take, an anti-pattern, or some­thing that was only ever included in the Design Pat­terns book as a life­line to pro­ce­dural pro­gram­mers who couldn’t really fig­ure out this OOP thing. (more…)