On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:36:52PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > But class LyX's member variables are just a bunch of global variables > hidden in a `singleton class' just for the sake of using a buzzword, > aren't they?
Sort of. The problem is there are languages (like Java) where using such things is necessary as the alternative does not exist (free functions). Now there is a tendency to deploy knowledge gained in one area in an other, just because it works, not because it is the best solution. That's only human I suppose. Andre' [Of course there are limits to this approach. I recently really got angry when one of the 'leading German computer magazines' came up with a benchmark showing that C++ is _slower_ than Java. Well, the Java stuff they tested was not exactly perfect, but the "equivalent C++ code" was so abysmal that I would not use that page to wipe my backside. And, of course, the test was "fair" as the algorithm was "identical".]
