should "self" be changed?
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Tue Jun 2 12:50:56 EDT 2015
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
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