Picked a more belligerent interpretation, certainly. Your original comment made no allowances for the obvious interpretation and said that the consequences of t

Picked a more belligerent interpretation, certainly. Your original comment made no allowances for the obvious interpretation and said that the consequences of the simple solution were "apocalyptically bad". While I found the ensuing discussion interesting you definitely did not approach it from a standpoint of engendering more interesting conversation. You could have gotten the same result much more easily by simply pointing out that this was not thread safe and only works in a single threaded application, and instead of nit picking we could have actually talked about better options for concurrency.