🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 28 May 2001 11:56:03 -0500, "Jack Frosch" <jackfrosch[NO SPAM]
@mail.com> wrote:

> Approach #2 clearly meets the pattern description of the GoF,
> but I'm wondering if there are any uniquely-Java reasons why
> approach #1 might be preferable?

I can think of two possible advantages to approach #1:

1) The brevity of the syntax:
    #1:  MyClass.method();
    #2:  MyClass.getInstance().method();

2) It is slightly more efficient, since it requires an object 
reference.

I tend to use approach #2 if it makes sense to me to think of the
thing as an object, which is usually the case.  I will *always* use
this approach if it is in any way logically consistent to have more
than one instance of that object.

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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