[Python-Dev] Re: new syntax for wrapping (PEP 318)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:51 PM 2/25/04 -0500, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>Not having this syntax requires A WHOLE !@#$*( lot of verbosity and 
>repetition, or drastic measures such as alternative compilers (Quixote) or 
>really awful terrible introspection hacks (PEAK does stack introspection).

Actually, that's only for class decoration.  PEAK does method decoration 
the old fashioned way, i.e.:

class Something:
     def aMethod(self):
         ....

     aMethod = binding.Make(aMethod)

So, an accepted function decorator syntax will make this sort of thing 
clearer for PEAK as well.