Bob Ippolito wrote:
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Your proposal would make decorators nearly as bad as the current pre-2.4 situation. This is REALLY ugly:
foo = decorator(....) @foo def fun(....): ...
I agree, that's really ugly. I wasn't proposing that. I proposed not allowing decorator arguments. Without decorator arguments, a much simpler syntax can be used, as in: def classmethod foo(...): ... Or, alternatively, I'm proposing allowing the above simpler syntax when arguments are not needed and allowing the pie syntax to handle more complex cases. The original motivation for decirators was to deal with things like properties and specialized methods. I'd like to see these cases handled well. I think these are going to be the most common cases and the cases that new Python programmers are most likely to come accross. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org