From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org>
However this could work:
class Foo(object): myprop = property: """A computed property on Foo objects.""" def __get__(self): return ... def __set__(self, value): ... def __delete__(self): ...
This would call property() with the results of parsing the indented block. Not sure yet this is a good idea, but it could have many other (possibly good, possibly harmful) uses.
Funny, I had a vision of something very similar this morning in the shower. :-)
The problem is that this is a *very* radical change to the grammar, and I'm not sure I can rigorously define how the switch from "expression parsing mode" to "block parsing mode" should work.
I would have thought that such a syntax is better left reserved to some hypothetical pep for anonymous blocks (extending lambdas, not that I personally favor/long for them) and not for something along the line of class in terms of synthetizing an object out of a by a block populated namespace. regards.