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On 08/01/2015 04:39 PM, EGarrulo wrote:
> 
> It is more than that.  The "Applicability" for the Singleton patterns requires 
> that "the sole instance should be extensible by sub-classing, and clients should
> be able to use an extended instance without modifying their code."  In other
> words: if you don't need sub-classing, then you don't need the complications of
> the Singleton pattern.

You never need programming by extension.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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flies get the best of everything."
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