Ken Manheimer wrote:
> I want function attributes. (There are all sorts of occasions i need cues
> to classify functions for executives that map and apply them, and this
> seems like the perfect way to couple that information with the
> object. Much nicer than having to mangle the names of the functions, or
> create some external registry with the classifications.)
how do you expect to find all methods that has a given
attribute?
> And i think i'd want them even more if they were visible within the
> function, so i could do static variables. Why is that a bad thing?
because it doesn't work, unless you change python in a
backwards incompatible way.
that's okay in py3k, it's not okay in 1.6.
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> I want function attributes. (There are all sorts of occasions i need cues
> to classify functions for executives that map and apply them, and this
> seems like the perfect way to couple that information with the
> object. Much nicer than having to mangle the names of the functions, or
> create some external registry with the classifications.)
how do you expect to find all methods that has a given
attribute?
> And i think i'd want them even more if they were visible within the
> function, so i could do static variables. Why is that a bad thing?
because it doesn't work, unless you change python in a
backwards incompatible way.
that's okay in py3k, it's not okay in 1.6.
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