[Python-Dev] Re: Another approach to decorators.

[David Eppstein]

In article <un011l2qz.fsf at boost-consulting.com>,
 David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> > class Foo:
> >
> >   decorate static:
> >
> >     def static1(blah...):
> >         pass
> >
> >     decorate locksFile:
> >
> >       def static2andLocks(blah...):  # both decorators appy
> >           pass
> 
> Wow, Martin Z's idea (using your keyword) really went "thunk" for me.
> What decorate does would be very much like what "class" does in some
> ways.

class: (and other something: constructs) start a block that can contain 
any code.  Does this decorate keyword allow e.g. assignments as well as 
defs and other decorates?  Or loops?  If so what should it mean?  Is it 
like that locals() gets replaced by a special dictionary-like-object 
that calls the decorator whenever any of its contents gets set?

-- 
David Eppstein
Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/