[Python-ideas] Before and after the colon in funciton defs.

[Jan Kaliszewski]

Nick Coghlan dixit (2011-09-22, 14:34):

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Chris Rebert <pyideas at rebertia.com> wrote:
> > +1 (FWIW) on this "assignment statement with leading keyword" variant.
> > `static` is an excellent choice of keyword for this.
> 
> Care to elaborate? This has always struck me as one of the more
> nonsensical keyword choices in C, so I'd like to see some solid
> justification before perpetuating it in Python (particular when C/C++
> intuitions about statics being process global will hinder rather than
> help in understanding the scope of this new namespace).

I'd rather suggest one of:

* ondef
* atdef
* deftime
* defbound
* early
* earlybound

Cheers.
*j