1 Jun
2016
1 Jun
'16
2:35 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 12:52:58AM +0000, Michael Selik wrote:
You brought up decorators as an example, but I think that was more about how decorators tend to be used essentially as part of the function definition. They might dramatically alter the behavior of the function and yet appear as an afterthought without the decorator syntax. From the PEP 318, "This becomes less readable with longer [functions]". The motivation said nothing about avoiding typing the function name twice.
Three times, not twice, and the PEP does mention it, right at the beginning:
"It also seems less than pythonic to name the function three times for what is conceptually a single declaration."
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/#motivation
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Steve