[Python-Dev] Plea for simpler decorator syntax, in addition to pie-shaped syntax (original) (raw)

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Wed Aug 4 16:52:25 CEST 2004


IMO, the most common uses of decorators will be to define properties, and class and static methods. IMO, these uses would be better served by a simpler syntax:

def classmethod foo(cls, ...): ...

This simplified syntax only allows names to specify decorators. It could allow multiple names, although I'm not sure it should,

I find this far more readable and obvious than any of the other syntaxs I've seen propsed.

Those applications that need decorator arguments could use the more complex pie-shaped notation.

Jim

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