The singleton design pattern in D, C++ and Java

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisprog at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.366.1279305632.24349.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
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>Personally, I do use singleton from time-to-time and have found it quite 
>useful.
>I wasn't aware that anyone thought that it was a bad idea.
>

That was news to me too. My guess is that maybe there were a lot of people 
using it for things that may have *seemed* appropriate for a singleton but 
really weren't, like abstractions for the keyboard, mouse or screen/monitor.