[Python-Dev] Re: 2.4a2, and @decorators (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Aug 4 17:12:02 CEST 2004

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 09:46, Jim Fulton wrote:

I don't agree that they are ignorable. People will see them in code and will have to understand what they mean. Given sme examples I've seen here, this will sometimes be a significant chalenge.

I think most of the cognitive challenge for decorators will be in understanding the side-effects of the decorator, not in understanding the syntax for wrapping a function in a decorator. That won't change by using some other (or no new) syntax -- the Python 2.3. spelling would be just as hairy.

-Barry

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