[Python-3000] Compiling the PEP 3115 metaclass syntax

[Robert Brewer]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> The PEP proposes that the class statement accepts
> keyword arguments, *args, and **kwds syntax as well
> as positional bases. This is a bit messy to compile
> and execute, but we already have this, of course, in
> the code for calling regular functions.
> 
> So I think it would be acceptable to this into a
> call to a new (hidden) built-in function, named
> __build_class__. Then that this class definition:
> 
>   class C(A, B, metaclass=M, other=42, *more_bases,
> *more_kwds):
>    ...
> 
> would translate into this:
> 
>   C = __build_class__(<func>, 'C', A, B, metaclass=M,
> other=42, *more_bases, *more_kwds)

This sounds familiar ;)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-March/043562.html

Why not just call that function "class" and get it over with? ;)


Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org
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