Guido van Rossum wrote: > But I'm all for adding syntactic sugar to Py3k. Can someone please > draft a proto-PEP? I think the compiler could treat super as a > reserved word and turn super.foo(args) into __super__(<thisclass>, > self).foo(args). Or something. Please be sure you understand the > issues (e.g. you can't rely on self.__class__). It would be great if > it worked inside class methods too. For static methods it don't see > how it ca work since there's no instance; or perhaps it should just > use the static hierarchy? Try not to go overboard; KISS etc.
Would you want this PEP to address the fact that, in most cases, you just want to forward all the arguments to super call (aka super.foo(*args, **args)), ala Dylan's nextmethod? Or is this what you meant with KISS? :) One idea would be just: super (or super()) which is equivalent to: super.<thismethodname>(<all arguments as passed>) Let me also state the obvious: *args,**kwargs is not always available, so having a short syntax to "do the most common thing" is going to be very useful. Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
