<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the feedback.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I submitted a coding style update proposal at <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141040" class="">Bug 141040</a>.</div><div class="">Based on the mailing list feedback, the proposal is to use a static member function named "singleton()”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will also upload a patch to align our existing code unless there is any objection.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kr,<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:26 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <<a href="mailto:rniwa@webkit.org" class="">rniwa@webkit.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mjs@apple.com" target="_blank" class="">mjs@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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".</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Agreed. I also prefer Class::singleton() over Class::instance().</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- R. Niwa</div></div></div></div>
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