[Python-Dev] Re: 2.4a2, and @decorators

[David Eppstein]

In article <89EC7888-E580-11D8-8D12-000A95A50FB2 at fuhm.net>,
 James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:

> As a postscript, I must say I am alarmed by some comments others have 
> used to justify the current restricted state. In particular 
> (paraphrased), "it's good because it keeps people from using lambda", 
> and "it's good because it keeps people from doing '@1+1' by mistake. 
> For the first: you hate lambdas so much?

I think I was the one who posted the lambda comment.
I also posted in a different message a use-case for decorators that had 
a line with two lambdas in it, so obviously I don't hate lambdas.

I'm actually pretty neutral on restricted decorators vs @expression.  But
   @lambda(func): body
   def func(...): ...
is (I think) much more likely to be an abuse of language than the 
Pythonic way of writing something, so I don't see a lot of harm in 
preventing it.

-- 
David Eppstein
Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/