[Python-Dev] Class decorators (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Mar 28 20:01:44 CEST 2006

On 3/28/06, Samuele Pedroni <pedronis at strakt.com> wrote:

Mike Krell wrote: >Greg Ewing <greg.ewing canterbury.ac.nz> writes: >>I've just been playing around with metaclasses, and >>I think I've stumbled across a reason for having >>class decorators as an alternative to metaclasses >>for some purposes. > >There has also been discussion on the IronPython mailing list that class >decorators would be a very useful syntax for expressing .NET attributes. > >http://lists.ironpython.com/pipermail/users-ironpython.com/2006-March/002007.html

the same is true for Jython and Java annotations.

OK, I'm convinced (mostly by the awful hackery that Phillip so proudly exposed :-).

I propose that someone start writing a Py3k PEP for class decorators. I don't think it's fair to the 2.5 release team to want to push this into 2.5 though; how about 2.6?

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