Re: [boost] singleton usage

From: Sérgio Vale e Pace (svpace.forum_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-14 08:00:13

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:20:07 -0500, Jason Hise <chaos_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I recently discovered that my singleton could potentially be used in a
> way other than as a base class.  For example, to create and use a
> singleton instance of a class which could have other ordinary instances
> as well, one could just do:
> 
> class Example
> {
> public:
>     void foo (  )
>     {
>     }
> };
> 
> // elsewhere...
> 
> singleton < Example >::pointer ptr;
> ptr->foo (  );
> 
I believe (as in "I didn´t tested it" :) that using it in this way
would allow multiple instances of Example? For example?

singleton<Example>::pointer ptr;
Example other;

Sérgio