[Python-Dev] new syntax for wrapping (PEP 318)
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Feb 19 19:19:34 EST 2004
At 06:48 PM 2/19/04 -0500, Jewett, Jim J wrote:
>I think this may be one reason this didn't happen before;
>wrapping is good, but it isn't entirely obvious how to
>write it or exactly what it should mean. Given that, it
>might be premature to use up the [] syntax.
Well, I personally prefer the 'as' syntax for both class and function
decorators.
As for the semantics of class decorators, I would propose that they be
identical to the semantics for function decorators. I don't think there's
a point to adding more ways to spell '__metaclass__'. :)
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