Another software design question: program-level globals

[John Roth]

"Robin Munn" <rmunn at pobox.com> wrote in message
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> OK, here's another software design question, one that's been bugging me
> for a while now. What do y'all think is the best way to handle
> program-level globals, such as configuration option -- especially in
> multi-module programs?

You've basically got it: modules are inherently singletons.
I would, of course, dress up your solution by putting the
configuration reader and so forth into a class, and possibly
putting that behind some kind of proxy so I could easily
slide in mock objects for testing.

John Roth

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> Robin Munn
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