April 21, 2005
5:05 p.m.
On 4/21/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum@gmail.com> wrote:
It strikes me that with something like this lexical declaration, we could abuse decorators as per Carl Banks's recipe[1] to get the equivalent of thunks:
"abuse" being the operative word.
Yup. I was just drawing the parallel between: @withfile("readme.txt") def thunk(fileobj): for line in fileobj: print line and @withfile("readme.txt"): # called by withfile as thunk(fileobj=<file object>) for line in fileobj: print line STeVe -- You can wordify anything if you just verb it. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy