[Python-Dev] syntactic sugar idea for {static,class}methods
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@zope.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:12:45 -0500
>>>>> "MH" == Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:
MH> Some time ago, Gareth McCaughan suggested a syntax for
MH> staticmethods. You'd write
MH> class C(object):
| def static(arg) [staticmethod]:
| return 1 + arg
| C.static(2)
| => 3
Very interesting! Why the square brackets though? Is that just for
visual offset or is there a grammar constraint that requires them?
I'd leave them out of the picture, unless you mean to imply that a
list is acceptable in that position <wink>.
salt-and-pep-per-ly y'rs,
-Barry