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

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Tue Aug 10 15:28:23 CEST 2004

Skip Montanaro wrote:

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.

If you know what the keyword is, you can rename the decorator accordingly:

 make argcheck(int, (int, float))
 make returncheck(int)

But we could choose a keyword that doesn't mean anything, e.g. 'dec' or 'decorate'.

Bye, Walter Dörwald

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