Comments on: Singleton Classes in Actionscript 3.0 http://blog.abesh.net/2008/07/27/singleton-classes-in-actionscript-30/ Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:28:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Mrinal Wadhwa http://blog.abesh.net/2008/07/27/singleton-classes-in-actionscript-30/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Mrinal Wadhwa Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:24:55 +0000 http://blog.abesh.net/?p=71#comment-30 Abesh, This topic has been debated a lot in the AS3 dev community... since private constructors are not available in AS3 a Singleton in its true form isn\'t really possible. Most workarounds, like the one you suggested above are based on runtime errors. Runtime errors as opposed to compile time errors don\'t make me feel very comfortable My personal preferred approach is to just document a Singleton class as a Singleton and let my team know .. although its nice to throw a runtime error, there\'s a good chance the error is never noticed during development. Private constructors would certainly be nice to have and I know a lot of people are lobbying for them in the next version of ActionScript. Mrinal Abesh,

This topic has been debated a lot in the AS3 dev community… since private constructors are not available in AS3 a Singleton in its true form isn\’t really possible. Most workarounds, like the one you suggested above are based on runtime errors.

Runtime errors as opposed to compile time errors don\’t make me feel very comfortable

My personal preferred approach is to just document a Singleton class as a Singleton and let my team know .. although its nice to throw a runtime error, there\’s a good chance the error is never noticed during development.

Private constructors would certainly be nice to have and I know a lot of people are lobbying for them in the next version of ActionScript.

Mrinal

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