[Python-Dev] 2.4a2, and @decorators (original) (raw)

Mark Russell marktrussell at btopenworld.com
Tue Aug 3 13:51:14 CEST 2004

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 06:36, Jp Calderone wrote:

I realize there is little or no chance of '@decorator' being pulled from 2.4a2. I hope that something along the lines of the above will be considered, instead, for the next alpha, unless there is widespread community support for '@decorator', as opposed to the ridiculously faint support ("it's better than nothing") currently behind it.

Personally I think it's not just better than nothing, it's better than any of the alternatives I've seen, including the do-nothing option.

I added a comment to your blog post in defence of @decorator -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/jcalderone/3913.html?thread=2121#t2121 but lets not restart a syntax debate here.

My guess is that the syntax will grow on people as they use it. If not there is the alternative of using one of the pure-python versions or just carrying on using the existing way of doing things.

Mark

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