On PEP 322 (ireverse)

[Aahz]

In article <gDBob.75864$e5.2794967 at news1.tin.it>,
Alex Martelli  <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>> In article <4xQnb.373812$R32.12367046 at news2.tin.it>,
>> Alex Martelli  <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>>>
>>>I still prefer Werner Schiendl's idea of iter.reversed, IF we find a
>>>way to have builtin function iter grow a 'staticmethod' of sorts...!
>> 
>> Raymond has vetoed this, but I don't understand why iter() needs to grow
>> a staticmethod.  After all, it's just a function that can be decorated
>> with attributes....
>
>built-in functions normally can't, and in that way they differ from
>C-coded functions.  So, iter would have to be changed into a different
>type that _does_ support some attributes.

Did you mean "Python-coded"?  Anyway, I doubt that adding an attribute
to iter() would cause problems the way changing it to a type constructor
would.  I'm not suggesting this, mind, just curious why nobody else
mentioned the possibility.
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