On Sep 22, 5:32 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:41:46 +1000, James Mills wrote: > > On 22 Sep 2008 09:07:43 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > >> But that's precisely what I want to avoid: I don't want the objects to > >> share *any* state, not even their class. I'm not trying for a Borg or > >> Singleton: the user can call the factory as many times as they want, > >> but the objects returned shouldn't share any state. I don't know if > >> what I want has a name. Judging from people's reactions, I'd say > >> probably not. > > > Snce when are "users" ever involved > > in programming problems or programming languages ? > > What an astounding question. > > Consider a class. There are the programmers who write the class, and > there are the programmers (possibly the same people, but not necessarily) > who use the class. The second set of people, the programmers who use the > class, are *users* of the class. What else would they be? > > -- > Steven
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