Re: Function once: concern

From: "Paul Prescod"

> I'd encourage everyone to take a look at the examples in PEP 318.
>
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0318.html
>
> In my opinion, the keyword "outer:" is misnamed and overgeneralized. I
> prefer Python's declarative approach.

1) PEP 318 has the advantage of not requiring the typing of "func = "

2) I don't see how PEP 318 would allow attribute assignment like "magic_ =
True"

4) How would it allow static var assignment at def time? (You argued for
this).

3) PEP 318 looks just as ugly to me.