[Python-Dev] Vote No on 318
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 1 22:13:59 EST 2004
Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com>:
> A failing common to all of the proposals is that they turn action
> words (like classmethod) into adjectives with implicit actions.
Action words? I would have said "classmethod" is a noun, and as such
it's a perfectly good name for a decorator.
The fact that an action occurs at function definition time is an
implementation detail.
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