Re: Re: OOP question

Ammar Ibrahim wrote:

I was under the impression a Singleton always implied a Factory.

Not really :) Thanks for the tip, I will check the code

So "normally" a Singleton should return null if no instance if the given object was created yet? Sounds fairly impractical. I think some of the Singleton implementations in PEAR even go so far as to completly ignore instances created directly or via a factory and since the static var they store the instance in as scoped inside the singleton method. regards, Lukas