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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Mar 28 09:45:14 EST 2004

At 12:54 PM 3/28/04 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

Robert Mollitor <mollitor at earthlink.net> writes:

> It would be nice if transformer decorations were never allowed > "arguments". It would keep that list as short > and as tidy as possible. That's the sort of restriction I imagined that Guido was tending towards. While it's justifiable in this context, I would prefer to leave the option of using arguments available, in case someone comes up with a use where function attributes are inappropriate.

It's inappropriate to use attributes of a function for attributes that logically belong to the decorator. For example 'synchronized(lockattr="baz")'. The 'lockattr' logically belongs to the synchronizing decoration. Declaring it in a separate location makes the whole thing harder to read/understand.

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