On Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:13:48 AM UTC-8, Gregg Caines wrote:
> So how do you achieve the same effect in javascript? In the browser, you > have globals. > The global object has nothing to do with web browsers. > If you want just one instance of a thing, create it, and set it to a > global variable. You can use that global variable everywhere. (If you're > thinking "but global variables are bad!", I mostly agree. This is one of > the reasons that the singleton itself is actually considered an > anti-pattern by many. > > Singleton is necessary when the program must have at most one instance of an object; where having two would be a problem. In javascript, it's well-used where the initialization of that one object needs some variables or configuration to initialize itself. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
