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

[Roman Suzi]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>    predef staticmethod
>    predef author(name='yarrB')
>    predef returns([int])
>    def plugh(self):
>         return 42
>
>
>To me, 'predef' seems to shout "Look, I'm telling you something about
>the 'def' that you are about to encounter in a line or two."

This is too much repetition to please programmers ;)
They like to write things ONCE. This is exactly the reason why
all this decorator hell raised:


def X:
   ...
X = decor(X)

uses X three times...


>Ah well, guess I'll go back to being a lurker on the deco issue. . .
>
>Cheers,
>Nick.
>
>

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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