Often I see a class where a value is injected into a method or even a constructor.  That value is then used by several methods within that class and a reference is simply passed through to each method that requires it.  To me this seems like a code smell, although I could very well just be a pedant.Unless a variable is only required once within the scope of a single method, I would usually have a class level field that is initialised by the method that receives the value.  Any other methods would then reference this field if needed.  This seems to be a lot cleaner to me.Thoughts?
Class fields/variables. Keep single reference point at class level or pass to individual methods?
language agnostic;class design