Unification of Methods and Functions

[Greg Ewing]

David MacQuigg wrote:
>>In Python, staticmethods are not fundamentally necessary,
>>full stop. We keep trying to tell you that, but it seems
>>you have your fingers in your ears.
> 
> I will stop this subthread right here unless you change your tone.

Sorry, I take that back.

I stand by the point I was trying to make, though. You
don't need to use static methods at all in a language,
like Python, which doesn't force you to make all functions
a method of something.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg