[Python-Dev] decorator support (original) (raw)

Xavier Combelle xavier.combelle at free.fr
Sun Sep 19 02:30:40 CEST 2004

However, it does not give you any clue what the decorator actually does, that's why I don't like it. People would declare any decorator using @decorator, without thinking whether they actually need to make that declaration.

In my opinion, I don't care what is behind the scene. If @decorator syntax transform the function into a decorator, all is good.

By design, any function (or, any callable for that matter) can serve as a decorator, so having a declaration for it might actually add confusion. Not any function can act as an usefull decorator, in my opinion. It should do something useful around the concept of callabale object. That's why it seems for me more like a syntax sugar than an algorihm construct.

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