Article:		Top 12 Reasons to Write Unit Tests
Subject:		Singletons are dubious?
Date:		2003-04-04 17:09:09
From:		anonymous2
To the author: Can you please clarify your assertion that Singletons represent a "dubious pattern"?

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• Singletons are dubious?
  2003-04-05 07:04:29  Eric M. Burke [Reply | View]
  
  
  Sure...check out this URL and search for "singleton" to see a great discussion:
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xpstl/
  
  The project I'm working on now uses a lot of singletons, and I can speak from experience in saying that they are hard to test, hard to refactor, and make things too tightly coupled to "global variables" disguised as singletons.
  
  I think the discussion on the Yahoo group mentioned above says it all.