[Python-Dev] Extended Function syntax

[Armin Rigo]

Hello,

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:44:26PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >     class Parrot(object):
> >         _count = 0
> >         class count(Property):
> >             """The count property."""
> >             def __get__(self):
> >                 return self._count
> >             def __set__(self, value):
> >                 self._count = value
> >             def __del__(self):
> >                 self._count = 0
> 
> These all abuse the class keyword for something that's definitely not
> a class.  That's a fatal flaw.

Too bad Python's metaclasses are powerful enough for doing all the kind of
things that a macro system could do without actually manipulating the syntax,
if it is to hear that actually doing so is fatally flawed :-(


Armin