Guido's new method definition idea

[Aaron Brady]

On Dec 5, 8:21 pm, "Daniel Fetchinson" <fetchin... at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The story of the explicit self in method definitions has been
> discussed to death and we all know it will stay. However, Guido
> himself acknowledged that an alternative syntax makes perfect sense
> and having both (old and new) in a future version of python is a
> possibility since it maintains backward compatibility. The alternative
> syntax will be syntactic sugar for the old one. This blog post of his
> is what I'm talking about:
>
> http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-explicit-self-has-to-stay...
>
> The proposal is to allow this:
>
> class C:
>     def self.method( arg ):
>         self.value = arg
>         return self.value
>
> instead of this:
>
> class C:
>     def method( self, arg ):
>         self.value = arg
>         return self.value
>
> I.e. explicit self stays only the syntax is slightly different and may
> seem attractive to some.
...

Would it be valid outside class definitions too?  (As follows...)

def sequence.shuffle( ):
  x= sequence[ 0 ]
  sequence[ 0 ]= sequence[ -1 ]
  ...etc.

shuffle( listA )

Can you still call it by class membership?  (As follows...)

C.method( inst, arg )