[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Can't we all just get along?

[Jp Calderone]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> class Foo(object):
>     __metaclass__ = Bar
>     ...
> 
> is *much* different than
> 
> class Foo(object):
>     ...
> Foo = barEquivalentFunction(Foo)
> 
> which is the same as
> 
> @barEquivalentFunction
> class Foo(object):
>     ...
> 

   Only if you choose to write it such that it is different.  Either can 
result in effects that persist down the inheritence tree, and either can 
result in effects that do not.

   Jp