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

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:49:59 -0500

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

MH> Not sure whether this is a good idea, of course, but allowing
MH> arbitrary expressions does actually make the compiling easier.
MH> Allowing arbitrary expressions without delimiters sounds like
MH> a bad idea, both for parsers and people.

>> I'd leave them out of the picture, unless you mean to imply
>> that a list is acceptable in that position <wink>.

MH> Well, it is, at the moment...

Well, that's pretty neat! Maybe FAST, but neat. :)

-Barry