[Python-Dev] method decorators (PEP 318) (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Sat Mar 27 18:15:00 EST 2004

Barry Warsaw wrote:

... I know all the practical problems with this suggestion, but to me, that's the most natural spelling. I suppose something like this might also not be horrible:

def foobar [ .author = 'Guido van Rossum' .deprecated = True classmethod ] (self, arg) Naw, these probably don't mix well. Hmm, def foobar { author = 'Guido van Rossum' deprecated = True } [classmethod, spoogemethod, insanity ] (self, arg): # Now what the heck does this thing do?

I think that Guido's point is that some things belong before the def because they really change the behaviour of the function and others belong after because they are "just" annotations:

def foobar [classmethod, spoogemethod] (self, arg) { author = "Guido van Rossum" zope_public = "True" }: pass

Paul Prescod

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