Cpp Coding Standards/DESIGN/GlobInit
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Avoid cross module dependencies when initializing global data. This is because the other objects might reside in a different shared library object, and order of initialization is undefined then. As a rule of thumb, avoid namespace-level variables if at all possible (consider using the singleton pattern instead, creating the instance on demand).
