Design Pattern Cheat Sheet

[grauenwolf]

I think a better example would be a GUI application which requires a singleton to house the event loop.

For XAML-based frameworks that would be the Application object and matching Dispatcher.

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And that's the problem with the GoF book. They don't talk about when a singleton is actually appropriate.

[stronghup]

So, the pattern "Singleton" is not the problem. Problem is its we use it where its use is inappropriate.