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Subject: Re: config pattern
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 21:14:30 -0700 (PDT)
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On Friday, May 4, 2012 10:51:32 AM UTC-4, bob wrote:
> What is the best and/or most common way of handling persistent config data?  Is it to make a Config singleton class or a class of static variables or something else?

Depends on the language, but if I can I use a static class. I like to do it lazy, where the configs load the first time you need them and they stay accessible and loaded.