Namespaces are one honking great idea

[Random832]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016, at 10:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The biggest limitation is that I have to abuse the class statement to do
> this. In an ideal world, there would be syntactic support and a keyword:
> 
>     namespace Example:
>         x = 0
>         y = []
>         def test(n): ...
> 
> although others might argue that *not* needing a dedicated keyword is, in
> fact, better.

What might be nice would be a single syntax that isn't specific to
classes or your "namespaces".

namespace(type) Name:
   "equivalent to class Name:"

namespace(whatever) Name:
   "equivalent to class Name(metaclass=whatever)"