[Python-Dev] pep 318, Decorators for Functions, Methods and Classes

[Michael Hudson]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

> At 03:44 PM 8/11/04 -0400, Jack Diederich wrote:
>> I have a mostly working patch for class decorators but it gets an
>> XXX ambiguity
>>between
>>
>>funcdef: [decorators] 'def' NAME parameters ':' suite
>>and
>>classdef: [decorators] 'class' NAME [ '(' testlist ')' ] ':' suite
>>
>> It works as advertised with the pre-decorators funcdef definition
>> (which removes the ambiguity).
>>Help?
>
>
> How about this?
>
>      decorated_assignment: [decorators] (funcdef | classdef)

decorated_definition or something would be better surely?

>      classdef: 'class' NAME [ '(' testlist ')' ] ':' suite
>      funcdef: 'def' NAME parameters ':' suite

But yes, the answer to this problem is "left factoring", which google
can tell you all about...

Cheers,
mwh

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