On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:51:51 -0000, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Did you read the blog post? The advantage is having a less confusing
situation for newbies (confusing the number of arguments to a method
call).

Experience suggests that newbies don't find this confusing, or at
least not more than momentarily.

I'm -0 on this at the moment.  Maybe -0.5.  I don't really like the
potential for hideousness like

  @staticmethod
  def spam.alot(isa, silly, place):
    return silly + spam

that's implied by making this a general feature of methods.

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