FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Emile van Sebille]

How about meta?

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"Christian Tanzer" <tanzer at swing.co.at> wrote in message
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arg-name   pro                             con
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class      obvious meaning                 clash with keyword

Class      obvious meaning                 case sensitive

cls        BDFL's choice                   pronunciation, non-obvious

clas       closest to class                non-obvious

self       standard convention             confusion between instance
                                           and class methods

Self       follows a common convention     case sensitive
           (class name capitalized,
           instance name lower case)

type       obvious meaning                 clash with builtin

cat        cute (class and type)           cute, non-obvious acronym


I'm glad that nobody proposed `class_` yet :-)

As the first argument can immediately signify a class method if the
same name is used by everybody it would be nice if an uncontentious
name popped up.

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