[webkit-dev] Pattern for singleton classes instance getters

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> This may be a question of what jargon we've encountered, but to me,
> "singleton" clearly means "the one unique instance of this class" while
> "instance" means "any instance of this class". If I hadn't seen this
> thread, I would interpret Class::instance() to mean "create a brand new
> instance of this class" rather than "return the unique singleton instance
> of this class, creating if necessary".
>

Agreed.  I also prefer Class::singleton() over Class::instance().

- R. Niwa
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