I tried to make a singleton for some particular class. As in C++ I made constructor of this class protected, made method for instance access and so on. All works fine until I try to instanciate my class outside the module where it is defined. I was surprised but I didn't get any compile error after this trick. How to prevent construction of class outside any module other then class owner?

Kernel kernel;

static this()
{
kernel = new Kernel;
}

class Kernel
{
protected:
this()
{
hInstance = GetModuleHandleA(null);
}
public:
.....
}

// another module snipet

int main ( char [] [] args )
{
Kernel k = new Kernel; // no error!

kernel.runMainLoop();

return 0;
}

Is it normaly?

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nail

nail wrote:
> I tried to make a singleton for some particular class. As in C++ I made
> constructor of this class protected, made method for instance access and so on.
> All works fine until I try to instanciate my class outside the module where it
> is defined. I was surprised but I didn't get any compile error after this trick.
> How to prevent construction of class outside any module other then class owner?

I think you're pretty close to your goal. Most importantly, you probably should upgrade to DMD 0.106. A recent bugfix allows privatizing this().

The following code works for me (i.e., it doesn't)...



/* *** kernel.d *** */

import std.c.windows.windows;

Kernel myKernel;

static this()
{
    myKernel = new Kernel;
}


class Kernel
{

protected:
this()
{
    void* hInstance = GetModuleHandleA(null);
}

public:
    void runMainLoop() {}
}



/* *** main.d *** */

import kernel;

int main ( char [] [] args )
{
    Kernel k = new Kernel; /* it won't work in DMD 0.106 */
    myKernel.runMainLoop();
    return 0;
}



@rem /* *** build.bat *** */
@echo off
dmd
dmd main.d kernel.d
main.exe
pause
erase *.obj
erase *.map


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