Is Monostate the good cousin of the evil Singleton?

Question

Singleton is definitely one of the most misused and abused patterns out there. Many of us have been infected with Singletonitis at one point or another. Curiously, its close c

Answer 1

The biggest problem I have with Monostate is that it can lead to confusion on the part of those using it. Generally speaking, if you create a new instance of an object, you expect it to be just that, a new instance, with its own state and lifecycle. I generally consider unexpected behaviors to be a bad thing, so I prefer the singleton, just because you know what your getting when you use it.

As for whether or not either pattern is evil, singletons tend to get misused, but then so do all of the other patterns, switch statements, for loops, or just about anything else you care to mention.