Re: newbie question on singleton class

From:
Gianni Mariani <gi3nospam@mariani.ws>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
12 May 2007 17:11:17 -0700
Message-ID:
<1179015077.546212.49370@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On May 12, 11:53 pm, pauldepst...@att.net wrote:

I liked this article by Danny Kalev on the singleton design class:http://gethelp.devx.com/techtips/cpp_pro/10min/10min0200.asp

However I was confused by this:

QUOTE BEGINS HERE
The class's implementation looks like this:

  Singleton* Singleton::pinstance = 0;// initialize pointer
  Singleton* Singleton::Instance ()
  {
    if (pinstance == 0) // is it the first call?
    {
      pinstance = new Singleton; // create sole instance
    }
    return pinstance; // address of sole instance
  }


A much easier way to write this is:

   Singleton* Singleton::Instance ()
  {
      static Singleton* pinstance = new Singleton;
      return pinstance; // address of sole instance
  }

This will also generate thread safe code on some compilers.
....

So I would have thought that Singleton* Singleton::pinstance = 0;
violates private access.


The initialization expression is in the scope of the class. i.e.

class foo
{
    static const unsigned int x = 1;

    static unsigned int y;
};

unsigned int foo::y = x; // note not foo::x - just x

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