[Python-ideas] static vs atdef, etc

[Jan Kaliszewski]

Jim Jewett dixit (2011-09-22, 12:06):

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > * I'm sorry but the keyword atdef is ugly. The only proposal I like is
> > static, but I agree that it only makes sense to someone with a C-type
> > background.
> 
> Even with a C background, static is a bad choice, because it has
> already been used for too many different meanings.  (Admittedly, not
> all in C.)

Yeas, we have already staticmethod -- something *completely* different.

-1 for `static` name.

+1 for `atdef`, IMHO it is not ungly :).

Cheers.
*j