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

[David Ascher]

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

Nice!

Note that this is quite similar to the [WebMethod] in C#, VB.Net, etc. ,
and indeed we could have [webmethod] for some variation of a SOAP/RPC
interface.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpcondeclaringwebservice.asp