[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Call for defense of @decorators

[Skip Montanaro]

    Walter> So how about:

    Walter> make classmethod
    Walter> def foo(cls, bar):
    Walter>     ...

I don't think anybody's come up with a candidate keyword that reads well in
most/all situations.  Consider:

    make accepts(int, (int, float))
    make returns(int)
    def foo(arg1, arg2):
        return arg1 * arg2

While you can contort "make" to mean what you want in this case it's clearly
a much different meaning ("ensure that (or force) this function to accept
and return these types) than "make classmethod" ("turn this function into a
class method").  Other potential keywords have similar problems.

Skip