Three Minor Feature Requests for 2.2

Greg Ewing see at my.signature
Wed May 9 01:23:56 EDT 2001


Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> >
> >     class C():              # should work as well as class C:
> 
> I've wanted this for years but the argument in favor is so weak that I
> don't think Guido would go for it. "I'm too lazy to remove the useless
> parens."

Well, the fact that empty parens are *required* for 
parameterless function calls, but *forbidden* for 
baseless classes, is one more niggly little detail 
to remember than necessary.

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