Thanks GG. Apologies for the wrong remark.
On May 19, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: > Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: > >> everytime you ask for a uniqueInstance it looks like it retrieves a new >> instance not the existing instance... since you set the uniqueinstance to >> nil inside that function, your function will discard the previous instance >> if any and then create a new instance. Singleton is supposed to return >> existing instance if any and if none create one. >> >> Also i guess the scope of your static is local. >> >> correct me if i am wrong. > > > Your assertion that a new instance is created every time is wrong. It would > be right if the storage class were anything but static. But it is static. > So a new instance is created only once, barring any thread-unsafe artifacts. > > By the way, this is true for plain ordinary standard C. Objective-C does not > change it. > > -- GG > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/karthikreddy09%40gmail.com > > This email sent to karthikredd...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com