#------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.00 Date: 1998/02/10 09:26:44 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Initial revision #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.01 Date: 1998/02/10 09:40:40 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Minor documentation changes #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.02 Date: 1998/04/16 14:10:16 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fixed minor typos and corrected example in documentation. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.03 Date: 1999/01/19 15:57:43 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Incorporated patches from Andreas Koenig to inline calculation of $instance variable. This results in a speedup of around 35%. * Added _new_instance() constructor which is called the first time _instance() is called. This can be overloaded in derived classes to provide more specific object initialisation. * Updated documentation accordingly.