Are decorators really that different from metaclasses...

[Paul Morrow]

Errata.  Please change the paragraph...

> 
> Ok.  Then let's jettison the baggage with the word metaclass and just 
> call them 'magic attributes'.  It doesn't matter.  The essential point 
> about them is that they almost /never have 'local variable' semantics/. 
>  They are attributes of the object being defined.  That's the point I'm 
> trying to drive home here.  When we use __xxx__ attributes, we are not 
> intending to create local variables.  No.  We are making declarations.
> 

...to...

Ok.  Then let's jettison the baggage with the word metadata and just
call them 'magic attributes'.  It doesn't matter.  The essential point
about them is that they almost /never have 'local variable' semantics/.
They are attributes of the object being defined.  That's the point I'm
trying to drive home here.  When we define __xxx__ attributes, we are 
not intending to create local variables.  No.  We are making declarations.


Paul