[issue11339] annotation for class being defined

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

>The basic problem is that the class object is defined after the class definitions have been made,

I have sometimes thought the the class statement could start with binding the name to a blank object or new, blank class object. But then people might try to grab attributes (and fail!) outside of method defs.

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nosy: +terry.reedy

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