[Python-Dev] method decorators (PEP 318)

[Charles Cazabon]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > 
> >      foobar:
> >          author = "Guido van Rossum"
> >          deprecated = True
> >      def foobar(self, arg):
> >          pass
> 
> The current parser can't deal with "NAME ':'" as a syntax rule,
> because expressions also start with NAME.
> 
> I also don't like that you have to repeat the function name.
> 
> And this would hide the "important" decorators (e.g. classmethod)
> amongst a large collection of metadata (unless you want to combine
> this with the "def foo [classmethod] (cls, a, b, c):" syntax.

  def foobar(self, arg):
      .classmethod
      .deprecated = True
      .author = "Guido van Rossum"

      pass

?

Charles
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