From: Hank Gong Date: 2005-12-09T03:30:16+09:00 Subject: Re: About class methods ------=_Part_17879_27302168.1134066608464 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I carefully read two articles about classmethods and singleton concept. Now for me, the concept of classmethods seems not difficult for me now. It'= s just singleton methods for a class because class is also a object. However, the concept of singleton still not clear for me, also how to use them is also not making sense for me. Yours, Hank On 12/8/05, Trans wrote: > > Sorry Hank, if you are unware of what were talking about in these last > two posts. We're refering to a very recent thread that discussed what > to call these type of methods. Presently they are known a "singleton > methods", but becuase of the clash with what is known in OOP generally > as the *singleton pattern*, there is on-going discussion on finding a > better term. Recent alternative suggestions are "eigen" and "adhoc". > > T. > > > ------=_Part_17879_27302168.1134066608464--