What do you call a class not intended to be instantiated

[Aaron "Castironpi" Brady]

On Sep 22, 3:28 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> Aaron "Castironpi" Brady a écrit :
>
> > On Sep 22, 2:38 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
> > <bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> (snip)
> >> Going back to robot-mode, Aaron ?
>
> > Not getting the same sense of "soul" as from my usual posts.  I guess
> > so.  Might even drop the name change, too...
>
> Don't !-)
>
> > while I'm at it.  One
> > more word from you about it  and I'm starting a thread, and calling it,
> > "Python and my sense of 'soul'".  Ha ha.
>
> Please bear with me - and understand that the above half-backed
> half-joke was also an implicit aknowledgement of the recent changes in
> your mode of communication. I should have added a <wink>, I think...

I can attribute it to a change in environment.  Going "back" to robot
mode would imply one wasn't always in it, and as such I interpreted a
tacit compliment.  Thank you for the compliment, Bruno.  I don't
suppose "starting a thread" is much of a threat, after all... at least
in isolation.

Regardless, as I've stated, I find the feedback valuable that there
seems (to people) to be more than one context that I'm writing from,
and I appreciate the chance to learn about it.  It's an observation an
erst friend made once that one can never perceive oneself directly.
(Whether that's a virtue depends on what difference there is between
self-conscious, and self-aware.)