[Python-Dev] Plea for simpler decorator syntax, in addition to pie-shaped syntax (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Wed Aug 4 17:00:34 CEST 2004

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:52 am, Jim Fulton wrote:

IMO, the most common uses of decorators will be to define properties, and class and static methods. IMO, these uses would be better served by a simpler syntax:

def classmethod foo(cls, ...): ...

This was rejected a long time ago because it complicated life for editor colorizing support and many similar tools. It especially complicates the creation of ad-hoc tools, and breaks ones that are already working.

While pie-notation isn't my favorite, it's reasonable enough. The example

@classmethod
def makeAnother(cls):
    return cls("magic", 42)

seems readable enough to me.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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