PEP 318 - Function Modifier Syntax

[Ian Bicking]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 07:02, Kevin Smith wrote:
> In <3EE67C20.941FCA51 at alcyone.com> Erik Max Francis  wrote:
> > A fair point.  So if you were able to choose any keyword for this task
> > that you wished, which would you choose?
> 
> I had considered the word 'using' instead of 'as'.  Someone else in this 
> thread also suggested that.  Then the the following def:
> 
>     def foo(self) using classmethod, synchronized(lock):
>         blah, blah, blah
> 
> reads as:
> 
>     "Define [a function] foo using [the behaviors of] classmethod and 
> synchronized"

It's doesn't match the implementation, though (which I think is bad,
because I think the implementation is simpler than what you describe).

This implies that functions know about what it means to be a
classmethod, or to be synchronized.  They don't -- classmethod knows how
to take a function and create a classmethod object, synchronized knows
how to take a function and wrap it with locks.  The original function is
no longer accessible.

  Ian