From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-03 16:18:44


> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Martin Bonner

> > Although I liked this at first too, it seems to me it cannot be
> > always implemented. I was now trying to add a singleton to my
> > library and I can't do it with headers alone. I need to maintain
> > the pointer to the global instance somewhere, and that
> means having a
> > global variable which cannot be defined in a header (or otherwise
> > you'll get duplicates). Unless I'm missing something, that is...
>
> Static variable in an inline function.

Oh come on guys, aren't we just getting silly? To avoid what? Adding cpp
files to the build?