What does Apple do on this?

I think their standard is to use shared in the name.


On Dec 1, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Quincey Morris 
<quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2015, at 16:20 , Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
>> The following seems to be working out for me.
>> 
>> #import "AppCommon.h"
>> @implementation AppCommon
>> + (AppCommon *)shared
>> {
>>    static AppCommon *shared = nil;
>>    static dispatch_once_t token;
>>    dispatch_once(&token, ^{
>>        shared = [[self alloc] init];
>>    });
>>    return shared;
>> }
> 
> Looks functionally perfect. 
> 
> PSA #1: I would encourage you avoid naming the method ‘shared’, indeed to 
> avoid naming anything with a brief name that doesn’t say what it is. Even the 
> argument that it’s easier to type isn’t good any more, since Xcode is going 
> to autocomplete almost every name for you.
> 
> PSA #2: I can’t help mentioning that you can write all of this in Swift as so:
> 
>       class AppCommon {
>               static let shared = AppCommon ()
>       }
> 
> Sometimes, Swift really is Obj-C-but-better. ;)
> 
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