[Python-Dev] Defining properties - a use case for class decorators? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 11:25:05 CEST 2005


Josiah Carlson wrote:

Another option would be to allow attribute reference targets when binding function names: shivers at the proposal That's scary. It took me a few minutes just to figure out what the heck that was supposed to do.

Yeah, I think it's a concept with many, many more downsides than upsides. A "given" or "where" clause based solution would be far easier to read:

x.get = f given: def f(): pass

A given clause has its own problems though (the out-of-order execution it involves being the one which seems to raise the most hackles).

Cheers, Nick.

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