object allocation question

Hello Guru's -

Am new to this forum, pls be kind.

Can we create / instantiate objects inside static member functions of the same class?
some thing like this?
Why would people do like this??

Class A
{

public:
A(){}
.
.
static void foo()
{

A* a = new A();

}

};

thanks

Hello friend

You can very well do that. Infact, you may have to do tat in the case of singleton class. Please have a look at this post

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=344782

Regards
Bharani

Ofcourse you can do that...
What you can not do is this.

Code:

---

Class A
{
int a;
public:
A(){}
.
.
static void foo()
{
  a = 10; //You can not do this. Reason I let you find out..
}

};

---

Hi,

Welcom to the forum.

You already got your answer. I Just wanted to bring you attention to this:

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You can find out all about them at : vB codes

It's also a good idea to read the FAQ of this forum once before starting to use it regularly. It's quite informative.

Best of Luck!
I