Bookmarked https://torquemag.io/2016/11/singletons-wordpress-good-evil/. “Singletons are useful, but they …

Bookmarked https://torquemag.io/2016/11/singletons-wordpress-good-evil/.

> Singletons are useful, but they reduce flexibility and therefore should be used sparingly. EDD is a great example. There is one main singleton that houses all the other “main” instances, of the other classes, without having to use a singleton on every one of those other classes.

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  1. Jan Boddez Avatar

    That looks like a somewhat appropriate trade-off between being able to still retrieve a (single) class instance (like, for removing callbacks from hooks) and testability.