Rather than decorators, how about sections?

[Paul Morrow]

Christopher T King wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Paul Morrow wrote:
> 
> 
>>Fine, instead of Foo (the name of the class), use the word klass.  It's 
>>a popular name for the first parameter of a class method.
> 
> 
> My code uses 'cls' for this purpose.  I'm sure others stick with 'self'.  
> No matter what you pick, it will break something.
> 
> To quote the Zen of Python: "Explicit is better than implicit."
> 

Using 'self' to hold a class object or 'klass' (or 'cls') to hold an 
instance object can make for some suprising code...

	def foo(self): print "I'm a class method!"

	def baz(cls): print "I'm an instance method!"

I imagine that the majority of us use 'self' in instance methods.  There 
can't be more than a few argument names that are commonly used to hold 
class objects (klass, cls, ...) so maybe the compiler allows any one of 
the popular spellings in that position.

If explicit truly was better than implicit, we wouldn't embrace dynamic 
typing as we do.  We would declare everything.  And this language 
wouldn't be any fun...