I use it for an object encapsulating command-line parameters when dealing with pluggable modules. The main program doesn't know what the command-line parameters are for modules that get loaded (and doesn't always even know what modules are being loaded). e.g., main loads A, which doesn't need any parameters itself (so why it should take an extra pointer / reference / whatever, I'm not sure - looks like pollution), then loads modules X, Y, and Z. Two of these, say X and Z, need (or accept) parameters, so they call back to the command-line singleton to tell it what parameters to accept, and the at runtime they call back to find out if the user actually has specified any of them.

在很多方面，处理CGI参数的单例方式与你每次查询只使用一个进程类似(其他mod_*方法不这样做，所以这很糟糕——因此这个参数说你不应该在mod_cgi世界中使用单例，以防你移植到mod_perl或其他世界)。

当您想要确保一个类将有一个实例，并且该实例将有一个全局访问点时，您可以使用单例设计模式。

假设您有一个应用程序，它需要数据库来处理CRUD操作。理想情况下，您应该使用与数据库相同的连接对象来访问数据库并执行CRUD操作。

因此，为了确保数据库类有一个对象，并且该对象将在整个应用程序中使用，我们实现了单例设计模式。

确保构造函数是私有的，并且提供了一个静态方法来提供对单例类的单个对象的访问

将特定的基础设施关注点配置为单例或全局变量是非常实用的。我最喜欢的例子是依赖注入框架，它使用单例作为框架的连接点。

在这种情况下，您将依赖于基础设施来简化库的使用并避免不必要的复杂性。

当你加载一个配置属性对象时，无论是从数据库还是从文件中，将它作为一个单例都会有所帮助;没有理由在服务器运行时重新读取不会改变的静态数据。

一个实例可以在Test::Builder中找到，这个类支持几乎所有现代Perl测试模块。Builder单例存储并代理测试流程的状态和历史记录(历史测试结果，计算运行的测试次数)以及测试输出流向等内容。这些都是协调由不同作者编写的多个测试模块以在单个测试脚本中一起工作所必需的。

The history of Test::Builder's singleton is educational. Calling new() always gives you the same object. First, all the data was stored as class variables with nothing in the object itself. This worked until I wanted to test Test::Builder with itself. Then I needed two Test::Builder objects, one setup as a dummy, to capture and test its behavior and output, and one to be the real test object. At that point Test::Builder was refactored into a real object. The singleton object was stored as class data, and new() would always return it. create() was added to make a fresh object and enable testing.

Currently, users are wanting to change some behaviors of Test::Builder in their own module, but leave others alone, while the test history remains in common across all testing modules. What's happening now is the monolithic Test::Builder object is being broken down into smaller pieces (history, output, format...) with a Test::Builder instance collecting them together. Now Test::Builder no longer has to be a singleton. Its components, like history, can be. This pushes the inflexible necessity of a singleton down a level. It gives more flexibility to the user to mix-and-match pieces. The smaller singleton objects can now just store data, with their containing objects deciding how to use it. It even allows a non-Test::Builder class to play along by using the Test::Builder history and output singletons.

似乎在数据的协调和行为的灵活性之间存在着一种推拉关系，这种关系可以通过在共享数据周围使用尽可能少的行为来缓解，以确保数据的完整性。

只读单例存储一些全局状态(用户语言、帮助文件路径、应用程序路径)是合理的。使用单例控制业务逻辑时要小心——单例几乎总是以多例告终