Hi,

I made the changes in:
<http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/179401>
<http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/179409>

Kr,
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Chris Dumez - Apple Inc.
Cupertino, CA




> On Jan 29, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Chris Dumez <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> I submitted a coding style update proposal at Bug 141040 
> <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141040>.
> Based on the mailing list feedback, the proposal is to use a static member 
> function named "singleton()”.
> 
> I will also upload a patch to align our existing code unless there is any 
> objection.
> 
> Kr,
> --
> Chris Dumez - Apple Inc.
> Cupertino, CA
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:26 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> This may be a question of what jargon we’ve encountered, but to me, 
>> “singleton" clearly means "the one unique instance of this class" while 
>> “instance" means "any instance of this class". If I hadn’t seen this thread, 
>> I would interpret Class::instance() to mean “create a brand new instance of 
>> this class” rather than “return the unique singleton instance of this class, 
>> creating if necessary".
>> 
>> Agreed.  I also prefer Class::singleton() over Class::instance().
>> 
>> - R. Niwa
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