their: Re: python vs c#

Harald Armin Massa ghum at gmx.net
Tue Oct 5 09:17:56 EDT 2004


Alex,

> Sorry, but I think you're being too restrictive.  More impressively, so
> does one William Shakespeare (Comedy of Errors):
> """
> There's not a man I meet but doth salute me,
>  As if I were their well-acquainted friend.
> """
> See?  "a man" ... "their".

I understand that "their" is quite valuable in English Language. May
it be a good candidate to replace @ as a decorator-keyword?

class fishandchips(object):
    their classmethod
    def salute(self):
       print "hello"

their best greetings,

Harald



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