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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Aug 10 14:56:09 CEST 2004 

Walter> So how about:

Walter> make classmethod
Walter> def foo(cls, bar):
Walter>     ...

I don't think anybody's come up with a candidate keyword that reads well in most/all situations. Consider:

make accepts(int, (int, float))
make returns(int)
def foo(arg1, arg2):
    return arg1 * arg2

While you can contort "make" to mean what you want in this case it's clearly a much different meaning ("ensure that (or force) this function to accept and return these types) than "make classmethod" ("turn this function into a class method"). Other potential keywords have similar problems.

Skip

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