Re: Traits and static methods

Hi Sebastian, This is not really a good example as the getInstance() method alone is > not sufficient for a reusable implementation of the Singleton pattern. > Yes, it was just a pseudo-code and not a true singleton implementation. > A trait for a reusable implementation of the Singleton pattern should > look more like > ... > which of course does not work as traits are stateless and > Would it work if instance is saved inside a local static var like: public static function getInstance() { static $instance = NULL; if (is_null($instance)) { $instance = new self(); } return $instance; } /Simas