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

Oren Tirosh oren-py-d@hishome.net
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 04:25:55 -0500

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:11:57PM +0000, Gareth McCaughan wrote:

One drawback of allowing an arbitrary list of transformations is that it might not be completely clear what order they're done in. I conjecture that most people will have the same intuition as I do about this, namely that the first-listed transformation is applied first. (It would be less obvious if the list came before the name of the definiendum instead of after.)

The modifier order [memoize, staticmethod] sounds more like the sentence "foo is a memoized staticmethod" - at least in English it does. In French, Hebrew and several other languages it's the other way around, but Python is definitely English-oriented.

So, do adjectives come before or after the noun in Dutch? :-)

Oren