classes without named instances

[Coder87]

I want to be able to write a class that does not require a name in order to use it. For example, cin is a class but it does not require you to create a variable and then access it through that variable.

For example cin is not used like this:

int number;
class_name variable_name;

variable_name.cin >> number;

How do I do this?

[WingedPanther]

cin is a named instance of a class. To not use a named instance, you will have to use a named pointer to the class and use the new keyword to create the object pointed to.

[v0id]

If you want only a single object of a class, you can do like this;

class
{
	public:
		void foo()
		{
			std::cout << "Hello, World!" << std::endl;
		}
} myObject;

and then use it like this...

myObject.foo();

I don't think it's a good programming practice, but it's possible.
It's tested with GCC.