Aug. 4, 2004
3:12 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 09:46, Jim Fulton wrote:
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.
I think most of the cognitive challenge for decorators will be in understanding the side-effects of the decorator, not in understanding the syntax for wrapping a function in a decorator. That won't change by using some other (or no new) syntax -- the Python 2.3. spelling would be just as hairy. -Barry