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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 29 04:55:32 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-March/043462.html

Or more precisely, the subsequent discussion and examples convinced me that putting class decorators on top of the class was bad for readability, vs. putting them in the body just after the docstring.

I just looked at that discussion, and I didn't see any argument to refute the thesis that if decorators-on-top is good enough for functions, it should be good enough for classes.

In fact it seems to have been written before the on-top decorator syntax existed, so there's no discussion of the issue at all.

Seems to me that, since we now already have @-decorators for functions, a very good reason will be needed for requiring a completely different syntax to get exactly the same effect for classes.

-- Greg

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