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misterbee on July 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Singleton Detector

If you aren't writing an actual hardware device driver for a specific peripheral port, you are abusing Singleton.

mirkules on July 10, 2011 [–]

There are many instances where you need just one instance of a class, not just a hardware device driver (for instance, when you need GPS location coordinates on a mobile device across several different classes).

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