Re: [boost] Re: In-place construction for variant

From: E. Gladyshev (egladysh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-31 13:07:21

--- David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
[...]
> Yes, this problem is mostly a quirk of global state, but can be
> realized in any system with side-effects, and almost never comes up in
> (my) practice.
> 

I would not be so sure about "almost never".
People use singletons quite often. It is one of 
the design patterns in Gof. 
It seems that basic guarantees concept for
singletons is very problematic.

Eugene

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