> Andrey Hristov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are absolutely ways to do this purely at the application level. It just > seems that it'd be a really clean, easy to program, easy to understand methodology to pass the key value to the request for a new instance, and get > back either a new instance, or a previously existing one with that key value. I don't think it's "really clean" to not return a *new* instance with a *new* call. I'm not sure what kind of advantage it gives you over a private constructor and a static getInstance($n) function.
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