What do you call a class not intended to be instantiated

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Aaron "Castironpi" Brady a écrit :
> On Sep 22, 8:45 am, "Tim Rowe" <digi... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/9/22 Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilli... at websiteburo.invalid>:
>>
>>>> Sounds to me like a functor, aka a function object:
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_object
>>> Ok, then the simple solution is to implement a callable type (__call__
>>> method), possibly with appropriate support for the descriptor protocol if
>>> it's meant to be usable as a method.
>> Yes -- and instantiate the thing and keep the state in the instance,
>> rather than keeping the state in the class, so that it's possible to
>> safely have more than one of them if a later design change calls for
>> it (probably what led people off onto the sidetrack of thinking a
>> singleton was called for).  That's the classic way of implementing a
>> "class [to be] used as a function".
>>
>> --
>> Tim Rowe
> 
> I think you are either looking for a class that has a generator, or a
> generator that has a reference to itself.

???

Going back to robot-mode, Aaron ?