• renoX <renosky free.fr> Jun 08 2008
• Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> Jun 08 2008

renoX <renosky free.fr> writes:

Hello,

Maybe some will find this blog useful: the author thinks that language 
would be better without statics:

http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2008/02/cutting-out-static.html

Regards,
renoX

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

renoX wrote:
 Hello,
 
 Maybe some will find this blog useful: the author thinks that language 
 would be better without statics:
 
 http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2008/02/cutting-out-static.html
 
 Regards,
 renoX


I'm not sure what he means by "static" in that article, but I guess he 
means any global state ("static" variables in Java, which he seems to be 
referring to, are jut namespaced global variables).

I agree that global variables have issues, but to answer the question in 
your title, they ARE useful (certainly the "singleton pattern" is not an 
improvement).