[Python-Dev] Re: Decorators with arguments are curries! (original) (raw)

Andrew Durdin adurdin at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 14:59:02 CEST 2004

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 22:36:59 +1000, Andrew Durdin <adurdin at gmail.com> wrote:

# using curry as proposed in PEP 309 [**] @foodecorator @curry(bardecorator, "one param here")

And that really should have been:

using rightcurry as mentioned in PEP 309 [**]

@foo_decorator @rightcurry(bar_decorator, "one param here")

But that's not a primary issue. The primary issues were: (1) That decorators with vs. without arguments look inconsistent, like function calls vs. function references, and (2) that consequentially, decorator syntax is implicitly introducing a non-viable currying syntax.

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