Comments on: Hello World! : The Second Golden Lunch Bucket Contest! http://www.as3dp.com/2009/06/21/hello-world-the-second-golden-lunch-bucket-contest/ OOP Techniques for Flash and Flex Developers Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:40:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: William B. Sanders http://www.as3dp.com/2009/06/21/hello-world-the-second-golden-lunch-bucket-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-2652 William B. Sanders Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:50:23 +0000 http://www.as3dp.com/?p=1092#comment-2652 Hi Steph, If you can, yes. If there's no font available; then you can't. Don't let the alphabet stop you! Take care, Bill Hi Steph,

If you can, yes. If there’s no font available; then you can’t. Don’t let the alphabet stop you!

Take care,
Bill

]]> By: Steph P. http://www.as3dp.com/2009/06/21/hello-world-the-second-golden-lunch-bucket-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-2651 Steph P. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:02:37 +0000 http://www.as3dp.com/?p=1092#comment-2651 Do you want the "hello world!" to be displayed using the language's own alphabet too? Do you want the “hello world!” to be displayed using the language’s own alphabet too?

]]> By: William B. Sanders http://www.as3dp.com/2009/06/21/hello-world-the-second-golden-lunch-bucket-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-2610 William B. Sanders Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:09:51 +0000 http://www.as3dp.com/?p=1092#comment-2610 Hi Mark, PureMVC and Carnigorm both use the Singleton as part of a framework, and as such it may have some value. However, I don't trust it, and I see no reason to use it. Take a look at <a href="http://misko.hevery.com/2008/08/17/singletons-are-pathological-liars/" rel="nofollow">Miško Hevery's post</a> on the subject and an earlier post on this blog concerning the <a href="http://www.as3dp.com/2008/11/26/we-don’t-need-no-stinkin’-singletons-why-to-avoid-the-singleton-pattern-in-actionscript-30-programming/" rel="nofollow">Singleton</a>. I'm really not looking for an argument in our contest, but at best the Singleton only provides a single entry point and at worst it functions as a global variable. So, it wouldn't be very appropriate anyway. Even Erich Gamma commented that he wished they hadn't included it in <em>Design Patterns</em>. Please don't let this one little thing hold you back from the contest! Kindest regards, Bill Hi Mark,

PureMVC and Carnigorm both use the Singleton as part of a framework, and as such it may have some value. However, I don’t trust it, and I see no reason to use it. Take a look at Miško Hevery’s post on the subject and an earlier post on this blog concerning the Singleton.

I’m really not looking for an argument in our contest, but at best the Singleton only provides a single entry point and at worst it functions as a global variable. So, it wouldn’t be very appropriate anyway. Even Erich Gamma commented that he wished they hadn’t included it in Design Patterns. Please don’t let this one little thing hold you back from the contest!

Kindest regards,
Bill

]]> By: Mark A. http://www.as3dp.com/2009/06/21/hello-world-the-second-golden-lunch-bucket-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-2609 Mark A. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:51:48 +0000 http://www.as3dp.com/?p=1092#comment-2609 why are you argueing about Singleton ? PureMVC uses it as a fundament. Sure, you can use it wrongly but I do not see the big problem. why are you argueing about Singleton ? PureMVC uses it as a fundament. Sure, you can use it wrongly but I do not see the big problem.

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