[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 17:53, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

> - There are two obvious usage cases for decorators: static and
>   class methods;
> 
> - There are more complex usage cases for decorators such as
>   PyObjC which was already agreed to be something necessarily
>   supported in the implementation;

I'm not sure these two points are accurate.  There's definitely a large
middle ground between staticmethod/classmethod and PyObjC's use cases.

> - People which want the powerful decorators don't care about
>   the syntax, as far as the feature is implemented;

I care deeply about the syntax, but I can accept any of the choices that
have made Guido's final cut.

-Barry

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