[Python-Dev] decorator support (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Sep 6 22:00:59 CEST 2004

If there is a general agreement about what to do to wrap a decorator, why no use the following syntax

@decorator def trace(f):

I've thought of that, and it is tempting. However, it does not give you any clue what the decorator actually does, that's why I don't like it. People would declare any decorator using @decorator, without thinking whether they actually need to make that declaration. By design, any function (or, any callable for that matter) can serve as a decorator, so having a declaration for it might actually add confusion.

Regards, Martin

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