[Python-Dev] syntactic sugar idea for {static,class}methods
[Python-Dev] syntactic sugar idea for {static,class}methods
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.
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