Re: [boost] proposal: singleton_ptr and noncreatable

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-05-27 08:36:52

on 5/26/00 10:10 PM, Petr Kocmid at pkocmid_at_[hidden] wrote:

 
> The singleton's are implemented with kind of smart pointer and
> constructed automatically at runtime (when needed) which is more
> flexible than static singleton 'memory eaters'

In what way?

> and 'before app
> start must all knowers'.
> (That was the main goal of this implementation)
> 
> // ====================================================================
> // Project:   boost/singleton
> // File:      singleton.hpp
<snip>
> #ifndef __boost_singleton_included__
> #define __boost_singleton_included__
          ^^ This name is reserved to the C++ implementation.

Can you please provide a quick example of usage? It's pretty hard to
evaluate such a substantial proposal without one.

Thanks,
Dave