Turn FlintIntegerRing/FlintRationalField into fake singleton type #1246
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PR #1221 is stalled or may even be a no-go; but I still think that it's potentially confusing that one can have multiple instances of type
FlintIntegerRing
/FlintRationalField
; I certainly see code not expecting this.So, let's fake it, by restricting the constructors. Also add tests to verify this works.