Terry Reedy wrote: ...
Decorators will add complexity, regardless of syntax.
Especially in their current over-powered form. If decorators didn't have to take arguments, then you could use a syntax like: def classmethod foo(cls, ...): ... This does add complexity, but I think it enhances understandability. I understand why some people want to be able to pass arguments to decorators, but frankly, I find many of the examples of doing so down right scary.
An advantage of the @ syntax is than it makes the complexiity separable and ignorable for someone learning/teaching basic Python,
I don't agree that they are ignorable. People will see them in code and will *have* to understand what they mean. Given sme examples I've seen here, this will sometimes be a significant chalenge. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org