[Python-Dev] PEP 318 trial balloon (wrappers) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Mar 11 15:40:38 EST 2004

At 03:11 PM 3/11/04 -0500, Jewett, Jim J wrote:

class Foo: [transform] from: def bar(): pass

The bar() function is now defined exactly as it was before, except that it is an extra indent to the right.

-1 (times ten to a high power). Better the PEP be rejected than use this syntax.

It is ambiguous precisely because it introduces a new suite. Suites in Python indicate a difference in execution context, often along with introducing a new namespace. This new syntax does neither.

Also, in Python a name to be bound is always the first or second token of a statement. This syntax buries the name inside the suite, appearing after the definition of what's going to be bound to the name.

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