Global static variables

[Michael Eager]

Soeren Grimm wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i don't know where i exactly should ask this. By i think may be this is
> the
> right mailinglist.

See Comp.lang.c++

> We have a huge project with different modules. So we wanna make our own
> output-stream.
> Like std::out, but with special features. But for this we must somehow
> ensure that there is only ONE instance of the outputstream in the whole
> project.

Look for the singleton pattern.  Every implemention of iostreams does this.

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