Re: Singleton as a common area?

FROM : Jonathan del Strother
DATE : Wed Feb 20 22:15:13 2008

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:03 PM, James Hober <<email_removed>> wrote:
>
>  On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
>
>  > It seems to me that a singleton object could be used
>  > to hold lots of global state info and it would be
>  > easy to instantiate the singleton in each of the
>  > source files to access the stashed info...
>  >
>
> > Is this a reasonable way to share info?
>
>  Sometimes you just create a single instance of a class.
>
>  Other times you enforce that only zero instances or one instance can
>  ever be created.  To do this second thing,
>
>  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
>  CocoaFundamentals/CocoaObjects/chapter_3_section_10.html
>


...and if you don't want to re-implement that for each of your
singletons, FTSWAbstractSingleton is a nice starting point -
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?FTSWAbstractSingleton