Singletons: Solving problems you didn’t know you never had since 1995
Friday, March 12th, 2010Funny 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…)