On Fri, 29 May 2015 12:00 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...] > in a language where classes are > themselves values, there is no reason why a class must be instantiated, > particularly if you're only using a single instance of the class. Anyone > ever come across a named design pattern that involves using classes > directly without instantiating them? > > I'm basically looking for a less inelegant term for "instanceless class" > -- not so much a singleton as a zeroton.
C# has these, and calls them static classes. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/79b3xss3%28v=vs.100%29.aspx -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
