Possible PEP: Improve classmethod/staticmethod syntax

[Russ Salsbury]

Kevin Smith <Kevin.Smith at sas.com> wrote in message news:<20030603164521903-0400 at braeburn.themorgue.org>...

> A new proposed syntax for method modifiers is as follows:
> 
>     def classmethod foo(cls):
>         <code goes here>
> 
>     def staticmethod bar():
>         <code goes here>
> 

+1

I think it's a great step forward for clarity.  The current scheme
makes it easy to miss the programmer's intent.  Another place that
could use a similar improvement is the declaration of properties,
where getfoo and setfoo are genereated from

    def property foo(self, val):
        """ property doc string """

Also a declarative form of metaclass would be an improvement. 
Unfortunately the analagous form doesnt give the expected results:

    class meta foo basefoo: ...

This would work

    metaclass meta: ...

    class foo basefoo meta: ...

Or with less syntactic mayhem:

    class foo basefoo, metaa metab: ...

Anyway, food for thought.

-- Russ