[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Aug 5 21:54:09 CEST 2004

At 03:31 PM 8/5/04 -0400, Chris King wrote:

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:07:18 +0200, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote: > > On 5-aug-04, at 20:48, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > > What is objc.signature() doing? > > The argument is fairly magic, in that most people wouldn't know how the > interpret it. The function itself is easy enough: it creates a custom > method object. The meta-class for Objective-C classes extracts the > method signature from that method object and uses it build the right > method description on the Objective-C side of the bridge.

Isn't this more a use case for function attributes, rather than decorators? Decorators seem like overkill in this case.

That argument has been done to death several times in the last year here. Function attributes aren't a replacement for decorators.

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