Singleton in Action?

[Ron Tarrant]

On Sunday, 3 February 2019 at 10:28:51 UTC, Alex wrote:

> Isn't deriving a singleton even eviler as having one? ;)

Perhaps this was meant as rhetoric, but I think you may be right.

This morning I was Googling "singleton replacement" and someone 
on another forum said Factory would do the job. Anyone have 
thoughts on that?

(Personally, I don't see it, but I'm willing to update my 
position based on new evidence.)