Call for signatories for J2

[Michael Sparks]

> Robert Brewer wrote:
> ...
>> The patch is nearly complete;
> 
> Patch against current CVS passes all the tests* and has been uploaded
> to SourceForge. I'm currently looking at how __future__ declarations
> work.

Patch against current CVS including __future__ statements/declarations
has now been created, tested and uploaded to SourceForge. All tests
pass.

For those interested this means the full patch now allows:

----------------------
from __future__ import decorators

def memoise(f):
   "dummy memoisation function"
   return f

class Foo:
   using:
      staticmethod
      memoise
   def Hoo(Who, *args):
      print "Yoo", Who

Foo.Hoo("HOO")
----------------------

For the __future__ work I followed the approach taken by
generators/yield in 2.2 . Using decorators without an explicit
import from __future__ results in a failure.

On a slightly different topic, when I was looking at how __future__
statments work, I must admit when I saw the following, it made me
smile:

> python
Python 2.3.3 (#1, Apr  6 2004, 01:47:39)
[GCC 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from __future__ import braces
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
>>>

Digging around the python source I must admit has been a pleasurable
experience (especially when finding nuggets like this! :). Whether or
not syntax J2 gets accepted or not, this has been fun - my compliments
to the python-dev team :)

Regards,


Michael.
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Kingswood Warren, Surrey KT20 6NP

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