On Aug 6, 1:09 am, Jerry Coffin <jcof...@taeus.com> wrote:
> In article <5hn0poF3jvqe...@mid.individual.net>, ian-n...@hotmail.com
> says...

> [ ... ]
>
> > > if(initialize(hin)){
> > > if(!engine::gengine()->init(CmdShow)){return false;}

> > This would be a syntax error, you have declared "pengine" as a pointer
> > and here you are attempting to invoke operation () on it.

> I don't see where it's used pengine at all. The only use of
> operator() that I see is on whatever genengine() returns --
> and he hasn't shown us that at all.

The only use of () is on engine::gengine, and on the init
later. It's just a guess, but could pengine and gengine mean
pointer to engine and get engine? He did show that pengine was
static, and the syntax above suggests that gengine is a static
function. All in all, this looks like some variant of the
singleton idiom, but with very non-standard names.

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