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

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Tue Aug 3 22:22:11 CEST 2004

In article <89EC7888-E580-11D8-8D12-000A95A50FB2 at fuhm.net>, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:

As a postscript, I must say I am alarmed by some comments others have used to justify the current restricted state. In particular (paraphrased), "it's good because it keeps people from using lambda", and "it's good because it keeps people from doing '@1+1' by mistake. For the first: you hate lambdas so much?

I think I was the one who posted the lambda comment. I also posted in a different message a use-case for decorators that had a line with two lambdas in it, so obviously I don't hate lambdas.

I'm actually pretty neutral on restricted decorators vs @expression. But @lambda(func): body def func(...): ... is (I think) much more likely to be an abuse of language than the Pythonic way of writing something, so I don't see a lot of harm in preventing it.

-- David Eppstein Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/

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