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

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@oratrix.nl
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:11:44 +0100

On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 06:05 PM, 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

At some point in the past, when the actual implementation wasn't even finished, I suggested to Guido to use

class C(object): def static(class, arg): return 1 + arg

as the syntactic sugar. I think he wasn't against it at the time, but somehow found the actual implementation more important:-)