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

Simon Percivall s.percivall at chello.se
Mon Aug 9 15:02:42 CEST 2004

On 2004-08-09, at 12.38, Walter Dörwald wrote:

I can't understand why we can't have a new keyword for decorators. If I remember correctly the introduction of yield didn't result in such a public outcry. We'd have to change our programs once if a variable names collides with the new keyword, but that's better than having to look at @s for the rest of our Python days.

So how about: make classmethod def foo(cls, bar): ...

I think "adorn" would make a better keyword in that case, as in "adorn with" this decorator the method foo.

//Simon

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