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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:11:15 -0500

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

BAW> Why the square brackets though? I believe Guido addressed this in his DevDay presentation. The list construct is to allow future extensions without requiring parser changes.

It was only one of the many grammar options I proposed, semi-jokingly.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)