[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Thu Aug 5 22:11:40 CEST 2004


On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:54:17PM +0200, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> Not every method is a property accessor. The metaclass does calculate a 
> default signature (all arguments are objects and the result is an 
> object) when it doesn't have better information (such as the signature 
> of a method with the same name in a superclass).

Sorry I wasn't clearer.  What I meant was if we have a nice syntax
for setting function attributes then the metaclass to transform the
functions just like a decorator could.

  Neil  


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