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From: "pal" <pal_news@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: C++ Question
Date: 11 Apr 2001 21:53:23 GMT
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Hi John,
I believe the model you're depicting is well exposed in the famous book
"Design Patterns" as the "Singleton" (not sure for the English name
though). As I did not personnally implement it in C++, that's all I can
say...


pal

John ( QuietBloke ) <quietbloke@btinternet.com> wrote in article
<9b2j3f$9sk3@www.netyaroze-europe.com>...
<snip>
> What I really want is to
> only create 1 instance of this class. Any additional creates of this
class
> should simply point to the existing one.
<snip>
> Im also thinking this MUST be a standard requirement for an app and
therefore a
> simple,elegant standard way of implementing it.
> I'm sure I read something somewhere about this very topic but for the
life
> of me I cant currently remember where I read it.
<snip>