Re: Can use of singletons denote poor project design?

Daniel Parker wrote:

I don't really see how there are any special issues for writing unit
tests for singletons.

Someone on comp.lang.c++ just pointed out, very politely, "I think you just
like using global variables because you're lazy".

That's the same point as mine, without the test cases illustrating the
problem.

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