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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 11:55:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Singletons
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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On 5 February 2014 11:19, Kevin Ingwersen <ingwie2000@googlemail.com> wrote=
:

> Hello. ^^
>
> I just wanted to ask, if there is a singleton implementation? The current
> one is rather =E2=80=9Ehackish=E2=80=9C, by using a static property, init=
ializer and a
> function to itneract with it all. Sadly, I can not put a patch together
> myself - because I am not good with YACC and Flex yet, or with the php vm=
 -
> but i would have a concept for an implementation o.o
>

Hi Kevin,

I don't think that standardizing a well known anti-pattern in core is a
good idea.
The current static property approach is quite fine and safe to use (if you
really need it, which is "no" in 99.9999% of cases), and not hackish at all=
.

Cheers,

Marco Pivetta

http://twitter.com/Ocramius

http://ocramius.github.com/

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