FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Christian Tanzer]

>     Christian> arg-name   pro                             con
>     Christian> -------------------------------------------------------------
>     Christian> class      obvious meaning                 clash with keyword
> 
>     ...
> 
>     Christian> As the first argument can immediately signify a class method
>     Christian> if the same name is used by everybody it would be nice if an
>     Christian> uncontentious name popped up.
> 
> I just noticed this thread.  Perhaps it's already been suggested, but I
> think Python's parser could easily be modified to recognize "class" as the
> first parameter in a method function's argument list.  There has been talk
> in python-dev off-and-on about relaxing Python's keywords-can't-be-names
> rules.  This might be a good time to revisit it.

That would be great. Of course, its not only the argument list --
you'd like to use `class` in the body of the function, too. Would that
be easily possible, too?

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