[Python-Dev] #pragmas and method attributes

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Paul Prescod wrote:

> About a month ago I wrote (but did not publish) a proposal that combined
> #pragmas and method attributes. The reason I combined them is that in a
> lot of cases method "attributes" are supposed to be available in the
> parse tree, before the program begins to run. Here is my rough draft.

FWIW, I really really like this.

def func(...):
	decl {zorb: 'visible', spark: 'some grammar rule'}
	pass

Right on!

But maybe even

def func(...):
	decl zorb='visible'
	decl spark='some grammar rule'
	pass

BTW: Why force the value to be a string? Any immutable basic type should
do fine, no??
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