On Jun 07, 2016, at 12:53 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
This would work as well and indeed reads better, but you'd need to have the compiler generate:
x = obj recordbinding(obj, 'x', 2)
ie. pass in the object, the bound name and the line number and recordbinding would then have to decide what to do with the parameters.
+1 although I'd bikeshed on the order of the arguments.
I used the method variant, because a very common use case is to let the object know about the name under which it is now known to Python. This can be used to eg. define records, forms, mappings, etc.
Yep. So given the above, `recordbinding(obj, 'x', 2)` would of course be free to delegate to `obj.recordbinding('x', 2)`, but it would be up to the decorator (and its author), not the compiler to do that delegation.
I just wonder how we could tell the compiler to special case this decorator in a clean way.
That's the rub, but I do think you're on to a good general solution to a common set of problems. Cheers, -Barry