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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Aug 11 16:55:41 CEST 2004 

Andrew> Aren't we really trying to recreate def as a multi-line lambda
Andrew> that binds when it's in a context that is not expecting a
Andrew> function argument in block form?

I suppose you can look at it that way. The output of a function definition plus any decorator applications to it need not be a function though. I posted a simpleminded example of generating a greyscale ramp using a decorator. If I thought about it for more than a few seconds I could probably come up with some other examples as well where the output wasn't a function. Some of them might even be useful. ;-)

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