[webkit-dev] Pattern for singleton classes instance getters

[Benjamin Poulain]

IMHO, scoping the function by its class is cleaner.
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/179247 looks like an improvement to me.

Benjamin

On 1/28/15 11:30 AM, Chris Dumez wrote:
> Hi,
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> I noticed that we are currently not very consistent in WebKit in the 
> way we implement singleton classes instance getters.
> - Some classes use free functions (like MemoryCache, and PageCache 
> until I updated it yesterday). e.g. memoryCache().xxx()
> - Some classes are using static functions in the class 
> (e.g. DatabaseProcess::shared(), PluginProcess::shared()).
>
> As I said, I landed a patch yesterday so that the global page cache is 
> now accessed via PageCache::shared() because I thought this was the 
> currently preferred pattern (given it seems very common in WebKit2 code).
> However, I thought I would email webkit-dev to make sure this is 
> actually the case and make sure we agree on a given pattern (one way 
> or another) for current and future code. We could then maybe document this
> as part of our coding style.
>
> Any feedback on this matter?
>
> Kr,
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> Chris Dumez - Apple Inc.
> Cupertino, CA
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