Updated PEP 359: The make statement

[Steven Bethard]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Steven Bethard wrote:
>>> I've updated PEP 359 with a bunch of the recent suggestions. ...
>> Guido has pronounced on this PEP:
>>    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000936.html
>> Consider it dead. =)
> 
> I tried to follow the thread backwards and find out what proposed change in
> the "class" construct would render "make" unnecessary, but I couldn't find
> it.  Can you summarize, Steven?

The make statement was mostly syntactic sugar for::

    class <name> <tuple>:
        __metaclass__ = <callable>
        <block>

So was technically unnecessary from the beginning. ;)  Here's the one 
post where he presented a few reasons he didn't like it:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000704.html

He didn't say a whole lot else about it, but when he mentioned that he'd 
like the discussion to end, I offered to end it. ;)

STeVe