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

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