[Python-Dev] PEP 318 restrictions on elements (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] PEP 318 - generality of list; restrictions on elements

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 10 19:28:15 EST 2004

Guido:

And it's also possible that decorators are (by convention) commutative, making it a wash.

That's not always going to be possible, since any decorator that returns a descriptor will have to be applied last in order for the descriptor to have its magical effect. So order of application will certainly have to be specified.

Left-to-right seems the most sensible to me, all things considered.

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