From: "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...>
Date: 2005-06-20T02:58:58+09:00
Subject: preventing instantiation

What is the recommended way in Ruby to prevent other classes from creating
instances of a given class?  The class isn't a singleton.  It creates several
instances of itself and no additional instances should be able to be created.

I considered making the new method private, but thought there might be a better
way.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.