[Python-Dev] Re: Another approach to decorators.

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I think this is too far-fetched to consider as an alternative to the
> > humble @decorator.
> 
> Maybe, but if you're still serious about improving support for
> domain-specific embedded languages in Python you ought to give the
> ideas another look.  If a reasonable syntax for decorators falls out
> of a more general and useful mechanism, so much the better.

How does

    decorate <expr>, ...:
       <block>

improve support for domain-specific embedded languages?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)