July 31, 2003
8:18 p.m.
Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>:
I.e. allow a dictionary constructor expression between the argument list and the colon; this initializes the property dictionary of the code object. One could stick a call to spark.rule() in there, or have a metaclass do it automatically.
This allows the square bracket notation to be reserved for [classmethod] and the like. I suppose there's nothing stopping square brackets from being used for both, but I like having consistency with other dictionary constructor expressions.
I like this argument. +1. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>