Aug. 4, 2004
3 p.m.
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:52 am, Jim Fulton wrote:
IMO, the most common uses of decorators will be to define properties, and class and static methods. IMO, these uses would be better served by a simpler syntax:
def classmethod foo(cls, ...): ...
This was rejected a long time ago because it complicated life for editor colorizing support and many similar tools. It especially complicates the creation of ad-hoc tools, and breaks ones that are already working. While pie-notation isn't my favorite, it's reasonable enough. The example @classmethod def makeAnother(cls): return cls("magic", 42) seems readable enough to me. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>