1) That's not mentioned in PEP 318 We can fix that. 2) That's in disagreement with http://www.python.org/moin/PythonDecorators That too (different authors, by the way). Arien> 3) Won't most programmers think GoF decorators before compiler Arien> syntax tree decorators? Not if they are unfamiliar with the GoF patterns (myself included). Skip