[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Is decorators the right term for these things?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 2, 2004, at 3:22 PM, <pythondev at bitfurnace.com> wrote:

> I know this discussion has focussed on the term "decorator", but I 
> think
> the term is a misnomer. These things arent just passive, static
> decorations, but are rather more dynamic active things; possibly
> "transformations" or "transforms".
>
> <ducks>

Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.  Many of the useful cases 
actually are transforms (classmethod, staticmethod, objc.selector), not 
merely decoration (as an interface declaration may be, it could return 
the original function unchanged, it really depends on the adaptation 
framework).

I do pretty much agree with you though.

-bob