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Isn't a "mingleton" the same as a named constructor, or am I missing something?

If you mean this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C%2B%2B_Idioms/Named_Const... , which is called a Factory, in Java, then no.

A Named Constructor / Factory creates a new instance on demand. A mingleton hands out references to the same instance each time it is called.

Yes, I was refering to that idiom. Thanks for the clarification.