You can't do "include Singleton" until you've identified the "Singleton" pattern. The author says that identifying high level patterns is a) the point of the bo

You can't do "include Singleton" until you've identified the "Singleton" pattern. The author says that identifying high level patterns is a) the point of the book (for OO languages), and b) that identifying patterns is a good thing. The author is perfectly right to say that interpreting a book which catalogues patterns in existing software as a prescription for how to implement new software is a great misunderstanding, as you've demonstrated in the post above.