[Python-Dev] def ... decorate (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sat Aug 14 00:27:37 CEST 2004


On Aug 13, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Josiah Carlson wrote:

Personally, I don't desire decorators for classes for symmetry reasons, I desire it to replace metaclasses, at least in those things that I could conceivably want metaclasses to do.

In some cases, what you actually want ARE metaclasses. I wouldn't say get rid of them, because I use them in cases where what I actually want ARE metaclasses, but I do concede that many of the (ab)uses of metaclasses could be replaced by decorators (assuming that the decorator syntax applied to classes as well).

-bob



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