[Python-Dev] Dropping decorator syntax for 2.4?

[Thomas Heller]

Couldn't Guido's syntax be implemented as a combination of an import
hook together with a byte code hack, without direct support in the core?

Code like this

  [decorator1, decorator2]
  def func(args):
      pass

seems to be compiled into these byte codes
             ....
           6 BUILD_LIST               
           9 POP_TOP             
          10 LOAD_CONST               0 (<code object test at 0091FD20, ...)
          13 MAKE_FUNCTION            0
          16 STORE_NAME               2 (test)

It seems BUILD_LIST / POP_TOP / LOAD_CONST / MAKE_FUNCTION is the
sequence which should trigger the magic.

Thomas