#11900: Serious regression caused by #9138
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   Reporter:  SimonKing                                                         
        |          Owner:  tbd                  
       Type:  defect                                                            
        |         Status:  needs_work           
   Priority:  critical                                                          
        |      Milestone:  sage-4.8             
  Component:  performance                                                       
        |       Keywords:  categories regression
Work_issues:  Laurent series rings are fields. Add docs. Don't use is_ring and 
friends  |       Upstream:  N/A                  
   Reviewer:  Jeroen Demeyer, Nicolas M. ThiƩry                                 
        |         Author:  Simon King           
     Merged:                                                                    
        |   Dependencies:  #9138 #11911         
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Comment(by SimonKing):

 I'd of course appreciate your answer to my questions, but here is how I
 would answer:

 Replying to [comment:125 SimonKing]:
 >  * Do we want to allow for subclasses?

 We don't. Subclassing a singleton means that it is not a singleton.

 > If we don't, shall the attempt to create a subclass of a subclass of
 Category_singleton result in an error?

 I think a big fat warning in the docs should be enough.

 >  * Should the attempt to do `Category_singleton()` result in an error?
 Namely, this would destroy ''all'' attempts to create a new singleton
 category in that session.

 It might be reasonable.

 >  * Do we want that `EnumeratedSets` is a singleton? Then de Bruijn
 sequences have to change.

 I think we do want that enumerated sets form a singleton. I really don't
 see why de Bruijn sequences are not simply copying the `_call_` method
 from the enumerated sets.

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