Actionscript 3 :: Is There Any Point In Globals Or 'evil' Singletons

Feb 3, 2011

I previously used Singletons for global classes, if it's absolutely necessary i.e. logging, error handling. But I am now using unit testing which doesn't like these! I would like to ask a basic question on globals. What's the point in them? What's wrong with creating a new instance of a class when you need it?

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