"Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > >Personally, I do use singleton from time-to-time and have found it quite >useful. >I wasn't aware that anyone thought that it was a bad idea. >
That was news to me too. My guess is that maybe there were a lot of people using it for things that may have *seemed* appropriate for a singleton but really weren't, like abstractions for the keyboard, mouse or screen/monitor.
