Re: ARC and Singletons
Re: ARC and Singletons
- Subject: Re: ARC and Singletons
- From: David Duncan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:52:58 -0700
On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Dave Zarzycki <email@hidden> wrote:
>> The simplest and most ARC friendly way to implement the singleton pattern is to switch from instance methods to class methods – because the class itself is by definition a singleton. In other words:
>
> Eek, this might be conceptually simple but it's a ton of work and
> giant step backwards in API design. Remember when -[NSFileManager
> alloc] became useful in 10.5?
There's nothing wrong with using the +sharedInstance approach either, just remove all the shenanigans that were defined to ensure that there was only one instance. In the majority of cases it was likely overkill and potentially masking memory management bugs.
--
David Duncan
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