Possible PEP: Improve classmethod/staticmethod syntax

[Aahz]

In article <20030603164521903-0400 at braeburn.themorgue.org>,
Kevin Smith  <Kevin.Smith at sas.com> wrote:
>
>The current way of declaring a method to be a class method or a static 
>method leaves much to be desired.  While it is flexible in the sense 
>that new types of method modifiers can be created without any 
>syntactical backwards incompatibilities, it just isn't that user-
>friendly (and, in turn, not Pythonic).

No argument; Guido considers the current method experimental.  The
current front-runner for fixing this is to add function decorators:

    def myMethod(args) [staticmethod]:
        blah, blah, blah

staticmethod would be a callable object that would return the
replacement function object.  This would allow chained decorators.
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