Yeah, making the body optional (without looking at decorators) is not acceptable either. Too easy to do by mistake (I still do this All. The. Time. :-) On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 2:19 PM <asleep.cult@gmail.com> wrote:
My proposal wasn't to make the body optional based on the presence of a decorator, but rather to return a "function prototype" iff the body does not exist (I probably should have made my made my own reply instead of piggybacking on his proposal). I also mentioned some form of expression to represent this, similar to lambda. Maybe a friendly error message telling the user to use a function when this thing is called would alleviate some confusion? I'm not sure how one would forget to add the function body anyway. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/3HJY6VGL... Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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