PEP 318

JanC usenet_spam at janc.invalid
Tue Mar 23 20:34:28 EST 2004


Stephen Horne <steve at ninereeds.fsnet.co.uk> schreef:

> To me, the 'as' syntax is misleading. It implies that the syntax is
> asserting a type, style or similar attribute of the function. That may
> be the expected normal use, with 'staticmethod' etc, but my
> understanding is that it is meant to be more general than that. You
> can apply any translation or any sequence of translations that you
> choose.

Maybe "def foo() with [list]" (or "def foo() using [list]"?) is more clear 
then?

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