On 15.04.2013, at 12:44, Tom Davie wrote:
> Note also – simply using your app delegate as a store for things that aren't
> singletons, but only one of them is pointed at by your app delegate is also
> horrific – you're just substituting one singleton for another.
If it were only that! At least
On 16/04/2013, at 10:18 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
> I don't know what you mean by "dependency injection", it's not a term I've
> heard of
OK, I looked it up. I hadn't heard the term but I'm very familiar with the
concept it refers to. Sometimes the service or dependent entity should be a
singl
On 15/04/2013, at 8:44 PM, Tom Davie wrote:
> Wow, I really can't get my head around this one. You make bold statements
> like "GLOBALS ARE BAD NEWS" (which I 100% agree with), but then follow up
> with effectively "use singletons instead". Singletons bring with them 95% of
> the problems g
On 15 Apr 2013, at 00:25, Graham Cox wrote:
>
> On 14/04/2013, at 2:08 PM, YT wrote:
>
>> My struggle is partially due to my lack of experience in OOP. I just have
>> not written enough OO code as of yet. AND I'm very new to Objective-C.
>> Hence my lack of experience and working knowledge
On 14/04/2013, at 2:08 PM, YT wrote:
> My struggle is partially due to my lack of experience in OOP. I just have not
> written enough OO code as of yet. AND I'm very new to Objective-C. Hence my
> lack of experience and working knowledge of Objective-C.
>
> extern int gFoobar;
>
> I underst
On 14.04.2013, at 06:29, Steve Mills wrote:
> Oh, that's easy, once you know how to make singletons. OK, I wouldn't call it
> easy, but it's the right thing to do.
If the C++ Steve wrote helps you understand things better, here's a 1-to-1
translation of that code to the equivalent in Objective
On Apr 13, 2013, at 23:08:41, YT wrote:
> int gFoobar = 42;
>
> Then reference it elsewhere as:
>
> extern int gFoobar;
>
> I understand that solution and its working for me right now. I have a PreRun
> Class that defines the object and I instantiate in main.m just before the
> line
> retu
First just to clear a distraction...
I didn't want to actually create my own version of Preferences. In fact that
was a mistake to even mention it. Sorry, I was flailing in my mind trying to
describe what I was struggling with and out came Preferences as an example.
Totally throw away the
