Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan@synaptics-uk.com> writes:

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 04:25:55 -0500, Oren Tirosh <oren-py-d@hishome.net> wrote:

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The modifier order [memoize, staticmethod] sounds more like the sentence "foo is a memoized staticmethod" - at least in English it does. In French, Hebrew and several other languages it's the other way around, but Python is definitely English-oriented.

Interesting. I read it more as: "Define a function, then memoize it and make it a static method".

That's what my patch does, too, but I can't remember whether this was by accident or design :-/. Incidentally, I'm not sure class C: def s(): print 1 s = memoize(staticmethod(s)) would actually work (s would have type 'function'). I guess memoize could made cleverer than the version I posted. Cheers, M. -- "declare"? my bogometer indicates that you're really programming in some other language and trying to force Common Lisp into your mindset. this won't work. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp