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

David Ascher DavidA@ActiveState.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:10:25 -0800

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

Nice!

Note that this is quite similar to the [WebMethod] in C#, VB.Net, etc. , and indeed we could have [webmethod] for some variation of a SOAP/RPC interface.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpcondeclaringwebservice.asp