Unification of Methods and Functions

[David MacQuigg]

On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:08:26 +1200, Greg Ewing
<greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>David MacQuigg wrote:
>>>In Python, staticmethods are not fundamentally necessary,
>>>full stop. We keep trying to tell you that, but it seems
>>>you have your fingers in your ears.
>> 
>> I will stop this subthread right here unless you change your tone.
>
>Sorry, I take that back.
>
>I stand by the point I was trying to make, though. You
>don't need to use static methods at all in a language,
>like Python, which doesn't force you to make all functions
>a method of something.

Apology accepted.  You are welcome to participate in the discussion of
the best way to structure this introductory Animals.py example.  I'm
getting some suggetions from James Moughan, and I put t