[Python-Dev] Decorator syntax J2 (decorate..def), with implementation (original) (raw)

Robert Brewer fumanchu at amor.org
Mon Aug 16 09:48:31 CEST 2004


Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 19:58, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> What about the variant which makes the block optional when > there is only one decorator? Better, but I'm still not crazy about it, mostly because of the new keyword. I think you'd have to add an future to get it into Python 2.4.

...which Guido hasn't completely ruled out (unlike most of the other 'potential' alternatives): http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047001.html . Personally, I feel decorators are powerful enough to warrant a more structured change process like future; it seemed to work quite well for generators. Perhaps any new feature which ends in "-rators" warrants it. ;)

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