Roland Schwarz wrote:
Anthony Williams wrote:
Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz@chello.at> writes:
But I think your intent is: since we make the object appear like they are static, they should behave similar to real static objects. Correct?
Yes, that's what I meant.
Umm, than as I would say in germanish "we get into devils kitchen".
There is one interesting idiom that gets around the problem: X* instance() { static X x; return &x; } void f() // where the static would have been { call_once( instance ); X * px = instance(); // use *px } It's made a bit easier if call_once is allowed to return a value... although last time this was brought up this appeared a bit problematic to implement. void f() // where the static would have been { X * px = call_once( instance ); // use *px } I wonder whether something similar can be "componentized" given an extended call_once.