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   Dave Abrahams wrote:   
   > on Sun Dec 16 2012, Dave Abrahams  wrote:   
   >   
   >> on Sat Dec 15 2012, Ian Collins  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> One question regarding DI, how does it fit with overloaded   
   >>> operators that use (in our case) a singleton internally?   
   >>   
   >> I'm afraid I don't know.  I think I understand the problem you're   
   >> describing, and I don't see any easy way to avoid global state in   
   >> that case.   
   >   
   > Oh, actually I do know.  You can inject dependencies via template   
   > parameters without actually making them stateful (c.f. Allocators).   
   > DI doesn't always have to happen at runtime.  Genericity can be very   
   > good for testability, among other things.   
      
   Maybe, but I can't see many projects accepting making classes   
   templates just to avoid the use of a singleton.   
      
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