[Python-Dev] PEP 318 - generality of list; restrictions on elements

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 8-mrt-04, at 22:20, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 15:46, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>> I guess this is an area where PEP 318 should be fleshed out a bit.  I 
>> don't
>> see any reason it shouldn't be expanded to include semantics as well 
>> as
>> syntax.  That might require a title change, but I don't think the 
>> semantics
>> should be left unspecified, nor do I think the syntax and semantics 
>> should
>> reside in separate PEPs.
>
> I agree.  FWIW, I think the list of things inside the square brackets
> should be simple identifiers, i.e. the names of callables that have 
> been
> defined elsewhere.  I'd prefer to keep them simple, meaning no lambdas
> or list comprehensions.  But that's just me.

I'd would prefer allowing function calls as well. One of the reasons 
for using function wrappers is adding type information to functions 
(PyObjC and ctype), like so:

	def myMethod_(self) [signature("i@:i")]:
		pass

Ronald
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