[Python-Dev] Extended Function syntax

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> [me]
>> def foo [property]:
>>     ...
>> 
>> anyone?  Probably relying on the difference between [ and ( kills it.
>
> Yes.
>
> How about
>
>   foo = property:
>       ...

Well on a purely instinctive level, I think it's horrible.

What does it do?  I seem to have missed a concise explanation, and
a few minutes of thread trawling hasn't found one.

In general I agree with Samuele: aiming for a one size fits all
sysntactic extension is fruitless unless it's essentially macros and I
thought consesnus was we didn't want them.

Cheers,
M.

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