From: Patrick Bennett <patrick@...>
Date: 2002-08-11T15:14:47+09:00
Subject: Q) about singleton methods and access control

Recently, I was rather surprised to learn that singleton methods aren't 
able to access protected/private members of a class.
Unfortunately, I'd like to have a class with multiple singleton 
'constructor' methods.  Each would return a new instance of the class, 
initialized properly.  None of these actions would really make sense to 
have in Initialize.
Well, if the singleton method can't access protected/private 
members/methods of the class, then how can I have protected portions of 
the class (to avoid problems with normal users of the class), and still have
a signleton method create intiailized instances of the class?  

Hopefully I'm completely missing the boat on this one and there's a 
solution to my problem.

Thanks,
Patrick Bennett