[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

[Anthony Baxter]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Or you could argue on a procedural basis: regardless of whether
> the feature is good or bad, the current implementation is
> unacceptable, as the PEP does not correspond with the
> implementation, the syntax is undocumented, the code has no test
> cases, and so on. I'm actually going to do that, because I do
> think the process is unacceptable, and should be either corrected
> or reversed (of course, this says nothing about the feature itself,
> or the code implementing it).

Note that @decorators are hardly unique in not having an up-to-date
PEP. Where it's different to the other cases is that they're rather
controversial, and therefore it's more obvious that there's a
problem.


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Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>
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