title: Why is using the singleton pattern discouraged?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/137975/what-is-so-bad-about-singletons">What is so bad about singletons?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I've read in several answers to Stack&nbsp;Overflow questions that using singletons is discouraged and evil. Why is that?</p>