[Python-Dev] syntactic sugar idea for {static,class}methods (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:44:11 -0500

"SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

MH> s C(object): def static(arg) [staticmethod]: return 1 + arg

BAW> Why the square brackets though?

SM> I believe Guido addressed this in his DevDay presentation.
SM> The list construct is to allow future extensions without
SM> requiring parser changes.

Okie dokie. -Barry