From: "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...>
Date: 2005-06-20T20:08:18+09:00
Subject: Re: preventing instantiation

Quoting Gavri Fernandez <gavri.fernandez@gmail.com>:

> On 6/19/05, R. Mark Volkmann <mark@ociweb.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> What could be a better way than making new private? :)
> The simplest solution is the best!

I thought I knew how to do this, but maybe not.  These doesn't work.

private :new

private :MyClass.new

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R. Mark Volkmann
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