On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 08:24:46 -0700, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
Sigh. This discussion is going around in pointless circles; we're *months* past that point. You're wasting your time (and mine).
Is there a PEP that summarizes the current state of the decorators design? One of the goals of PEPs was to prevent design discussions from going in circles. Another goal was to keep core developers abreast of changes without having to read every message on python-dev. As you mentioned in an earlier email, I think the work on 2.4 would have been smoother if we had used the PEP process more effectively. We never had a decent PEP for the decorator syntax discussion. PEP 318 describes a particular design choice, but it's weak on rationale. There's no PEP that summarizes the various syntax options and the reason for the eventual choice. Facundo's PEP for decimal arithmetic (PEP 327) looks like an example of the right thing. I haven't followed the work closely, but it looks like the PEP describes the current state of the design and the rationale for it. The generator PEP is in better shape than it used to be. Jeremy