Re: Question about singleton

From:
 Jack <junw2000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:59:11 -0700
Message-ID:
<1192726751.309575.304480@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 18, 1:16 am, Uday Bidkar <uday.bid...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Oct 18, 11:48 am, Jack <junw2...@gmail.com> wrote:

If class A is a singleton, class B inherits class A,

class B : public class A

Is class B also a singleton?

Thanks.

Jack


It depends on how singleton pattern is implemented in class A. I guess
if the constructor of A is made private, then you wont be able to
initialize even a single object of B and if its protected, you can
implement B as singleton and non-singleton as well as you would be
able to call A's constructo from that of B.


How about this implementation:

class A{

public:
   virtual A* getinstance()
   {
      if(ptr_A == NULL)
         ptr_A = new A;
      return ptr_A;
   }

protected:
   A():ptr_A(NULL){}

private:
   A* ptr_A;
};

class B : public class A
{
public:
   A* getinstance()
   {
      if(ptr_B == NULL)
         ptr_B = new B;
      return ptr_B;
   }

protected:
   B(): ptr_B(NULL),A(NULL){}

private:
   B* ptr_B;
};

Thanks.

Jack

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