"Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote
< much sense about singleton v global>
and think this makes their code "better". (I blame the Go4 for
making a
religion out of design patterns which exist only to work around
Java's
limitations.)
In fact the original design patterns were based around Smalltalk's
limitations since most of the Go4 were/are Smalltalk hackers. And
thus the Singleton - because Smalltalk has no concept of global
variables.
The book was registered in 1994 and released in 1995, a full year
before the first Java JDK was made publicly available.
Alan G.
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