Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnewsl!strange
From: strange@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (philip.e.brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Allowing only one instantiation of a class
Message-ID: <2283@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 89 22:48:48 GMT
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Reply-To: strange@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (philip.e.brown,sf,)
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In article <672@suntops.Tops.Sun.COM> rdas@hatter.Tops.Sun.COM (Robin Das) writes:
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>How do you allow only one instantation of a class across a system?

If you can name the instantiation, it's as simple as:

	class { /*...*/ } instance;

Since you haven't named the type, there is no handle for
additional instances.

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Phil Brown
strange@attunix.att.com