[cap-talk] Singletons Considered Harmfuly

[Raoul Duke]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:52 AM, David Wagner <daw at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I suspect this principle is uncontroversial: it comes naturally,
> and I would expect that any decent OO programmer is already following
> this principle.  So I don't see any need to call it out specially or
> evangelize it.  I can't recall seeing code that uses instance fields
> where a local variable would do the job, whereas use of singletons seems
> much more prevalent.

therein lies the rub: i've seen enough code to know that not all code
is "naturally" good.