Chris Rebert <cvrebert@gmail.com> wrote:
Collin Winter wrote:
Tomer wasn't proposing that any of those decorators be included in the standard library. Those cases where one of decorators isn't sufficient as written? Modify it, use it in your code, post it to the cookbook. Not every n-line function should be turned into syntax.
Right, but for something used so frequently, should you really have to look through N decorator recipes, figure out which one you want, and then modify it, as opposed to a change in semantics that obviates the need for such decorators altogether?
Ahh, but the decorator recipes are more or less examples of how one could go about removing the 1 additional if statement/conditional expression. Obviously you don't *need* to look through the decorators, because the 1 line if statement or conditional expression solves them all! Really, you could think of the decorator variants as anti-patterns, because they seek to complicate what is trivial to solve, which isn't an issue in real world code. - Josiah