Singleton

From: DPfan (DPfan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/25/03 

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:48:50 GMT

The intent of the Singleton pattern as defined in Design Patterns is to
"ensure a class has only one instance, and provide a global point of access
to it". What's the meaning of "a global point of access" here? Does it mean
to make such a Singleton object a global object?

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