[Python-Dev] syntactic sugar idea for {static,class}methods

[Jack Jansen]

On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 06:05  PM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Some time ago, Gareth McCaughan suggested a syntax for staticmethods.
> You'd write
>
> class C(object):
>     def static(arg) [staticmethod]:
>         return 1 + arg
>
> C.static(2)
>    => 3

At some point in the past, when the actual implementation wasn't 
even finished, I suggested to Guido to use

class C(object):
	def static(class, arg):
		return 1 + arg

as the syntactic sugar. I think he wasn't against it at the 
time, but somehow found the actual implementation more 
important:-)
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