RE: [Rails-devel] The Player Class

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

> > > Though, now that I think about it, perhaps Bank should be a 
> > > totally static 
> > > class?
> > 
> > It could be, sure. 
> > It's now a singleton, though not very well managed.
> >  
> 
> It just seems like this is one of the rare instances that I can not
> envision needing more than one of these.

That is why it is a singleton - exactly one instance.
Of course, often singletons can as well be "zerotons" 
- just class (static) methods, as you propose.
This is OK if subclassing is not an issue.
But if we have to count with "extended" Bank functionality in
a possible future subclass, a singleton is better.

Erik.