I recently switched to a new way of implementing singletons in Objective-C. Since most of my code now is iOS 4.0+ I started using GCD and blocks as recommended by Luke Redpath (ARC compatible):
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| + (id) sharedInstance { | |
| static dispatch_once_t predicate = 0; | |
| __strong static id shared = nil; | |
| dispatch_once(&predicate, ^{ | |
| shared = [[self alloc] init]; | |
| }); | |
| return shared; | |
| } |