[Python-Dev] syntactic sugar idea for {static,class}methods

[Guido van Rossum]

>     MH> class C(object):
>     MH>     def static(arg) [staticmethod]:
>     MH>     return 1 + arg
> 
>     BAW> Why the square brackets though?
> 
> I believe Guido addressed this in his DevDay presentation.  The list
> construct is to allow future extensions without requiring parser changes.

It was only one of the many grammar options I proposed, semi-jokingly.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)