Decorators: J2 and a relation to @

[Robert Brewer]

Shane Holloway wrote:
>  From the example in Section II, part 3 of 
> http://www.aminus.org/rbre/python/pydec.html consider the following 
> decorated function.
> 
>      @using([
>          funcattrs(author="Guido van Rossum"),
>          memorize,
>          synchronize,
>          classmethod,
>      ])
>      def foo(cls, *args):
>          pass
> 
> 
> This looks an lot like the suite method proposed in J2 in the current 
> syntax of Python 2.4a2.  All that would need to be added is a "using" 
> decorator method.  I like the @ because it makes me take note 
> that the 
> following is special in terms of code execution.[*]
> 
> What do you think?

I think you've come to the same conclusion I did in the Conclusion of
the J2 proposal: everyone agrees that decorators need to be distinct.
It's up to Guido to decide "how distinct"...@ is more distinct and
"using" less so. That's the big difference.


Robert Brewer
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