[Python-Dev] Extended Function syntax

[Guido van Rossum]

Paul, I'd like to see what you think of my alternate proposal that
does away with the keyword altogether.

> By the way, can I just say that I am +1 on Michael Hudson's original
> patch for [...] on definitions. Even though it doesn't solve the
> issue of properties, I think it's a nice solution for classmethod
> and staticmethod, and again I like the generality.

I hope that everyone involved in this discussion understands that none
of this goes into Python 2.3.  We've promised syntactic stability, and
that's what people will get.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)