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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:30:53 +1100
Subject: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:35:43 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Subclassing bool breaks this invariant, unless you never instantiate the
>> subclass, in which case it's completely useless.
>
> Not necessarily. A class that you never instantiate, but use as an object
> itself, is another way of implementing the singleton design pattern.
> Obviously all the methods have to be class methods, but it is doable.
>
> But wacky exceptions like subclasses that aren't instantiated aside,
> normally if you subclass something you intend to instantiate it.

True, I should have said "probably useless" instead of "completely
useless". :) There's always *something* you could do with it.

ChrisA