PEP 318

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Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.247.1079985383.742.python-list at python.org>...
> I will reiterate my comment from before:  PEP 318 is about more than just
> static and class methods.  Here are a few examples from the python-dev
> discussion.
> 
>   1.  From Fred Drake:
> 
>     As an (admittedly trivial) example, I'd be quite happy for:
> 
>         class Color [valuemap]:
>             red = rgb(255, 0, 0)
>             blue  = rgb(0, 255, 0)
>             green = rgb(0, 0, 255)
> 
>     to cause the name Color to be bound to a non-callable object.  Why must
>     the decorators be required to return callables?  It will not make sense
>     in all circumstances when a decorator is being used.

Ok.
 
>   2.  From Anders Munch:
> 
>     Given that the decorator expression can be an arbitrary Python
>     expression, it _will_ be used as such. For example:
> 
>     def foo(arg1, arg2) as release(
>             version="1.0",
>             author="me",
>             status="Well I wrote it so it works, m'kay?",
>             warning="You might want to use the Foo class instead"):

Nice,
 
>   3.  From Shane Hathaway:
> 
>     Ooh, what about this:
> 
>          def singleton(klass):
>              return klass()
> 
>          class MyThing [singleton]:
>              ...
> 
>     That would be splendid IMHO.

This one I don't like (not the syntax, the implementation).
I want my singleton to be a class I can derive from.
This can be done by using a metaclass as decorator
(I posted an example months ago).
 
> There are plenty of other examples.  Browse the archives.
> 
> think-outside-the-bun-(tm)-ly, y'rs,
> 
> Skip
And don't forget Ville Vanio's idea of using the new syntax to
implement multimethods:

def __mul__(self,other) as multimethod(Matrix,Matrix):
    ...

def __mul__(self,other) as multimethod(Matrix,Vector):
   ...

def __mul__(self,other) as multimethod(Matrix,Scalar):
  ...

def __mul__(self,other) as multimethod(Vector,Vector):
  ...

def __mul__(self,other) as multimethod(Vector,Scalar):
  ...

etc.

Way cool, actually :)


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