Some language proposals.

[Aahz]

In article <tyfoermmgp7.fsf at pcepsft001.cern.ch>,
Jacek Generowicz  <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote:
>aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>> In article <tyfwu6bmfhx.fsf at pcepsft001.cern.ch>,
>> Jacek Generowicz  <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>Sure. I have some stateful methods of classes (which I create
>>>dynamically and stick onto the class as the information about the
>>>existence of the method becomes available). By implementing them as
>>>closures I can just stick them on to the class. If I were to implement
>>>them as instances then I'd have to reimplement all the descriptors
>>>that take care of turning functions into bound or unbound methods.
>> 
>> Why not use callable instances?
>
>Errrrr ...
>
>Reading the paragraph you quoted and trying to understand it is left
>as an exercise to you. (Hint: it's the last sentence.)

Nope.  Got nothing to do with my point:

class Callable:
    def __call__(self):
        print "!"

class C:
    def __init__(self):
        self.foo = Callable()

C().foo()

Now tell me why this doesn't do what you want.
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