[Python-Dev] Suggesting '.' decorators (PEP318) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Aug 9 04:29:07 CEST 2004

Heiko Wundram <heikowu at ceosg.de>:

Same objection from me as to the proposal of decorating with | in the function: it simply takes away the actual meaning from the decorator (which actually is to make it very clear to see that the function is special in some way).

I think a problem we have here is that how important it is to know that a function is being decorated depends on the nature of the decorator. For example, it can be important for the user of a function to know that it's a classmethod or staticmethod. On the other hand, the Objective-C signature of a PyObjC method is something that's only of interest to the implementor of the method.

So there isn't going to be a one-size-fits-all approach that will give all decorators exactly the right amount of prominence.

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