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

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:12:45 -0500

"MH" == Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:

MH> Some time ago, Gareth McCaughan suggested a syntax for
MH> staticmethods.  You'd write

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

| C.static(2)
|    => 3

Very interesting! Why the square brackets though? Is that just for visual offset or is there a grammar constraint that requires them? I'd leave them out of the picture, unless you mean to imply that a list is acceptable in that position .

salt-and-pep-per-ly y'rs, -Barry