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Wed Mar 31 22:39:05 EST 2004 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-March/043870.html

At 10:19 PM 3/31/04 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:

>"Mike Thompson" <mike.spam.filter at day8.com.au> wrote in message
>news:c4fk3i$ujb$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> >      as: [classmethod]
> >      def func(args)
>
>I think I like this better than the bare list as a prefix.  as: suites
>could be explained as an optional prefix suite for functions just as else:
>suites are optional suffix suites for if/while/for.   Hmmm...

'as' is not currently a keyword, and making it so would break any programs 
that use it as a name.

On the bright side, if it *were* made a keyword, then this would be possible:

as [classmethod] def func(*args):
     pass

Really, of the current "before the def" proposals, I think I like Samuele's:

*[classmethod]
def func(*args):
     pass

approach the best.  The '*' seems to say "special note, pay attention".  :)

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