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

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:55:23 +0100

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Michael Hudson wrote:

Some time ago, Gareth McCaughan suggested a syntax for staticmethods. You'd write class C(object): def static(arg) [staticmethod]: return 1 + arg C.static(2) => 3

Certainly looks nice.

I'd just use a shorter name for [staticmethod], e.g. [static].

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