PEP 318 decorators are not Decorators

[Arien Malec]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in
news:mailman.1625.1092418237.5135.python-list at python.org: 
>     Arien> 3) Won't most programmers think GoF decorators before
>     compiler syntax tree decorators?
> 
> Not if they are unfamiliar with the GoF patterns (myself included).

Google: 

decorate "syntax tree" -pattern --> 129 hits
decorator "syntax tree" -pattern --> 20 hits
decorator pattern -"syntax tree" --> about 62,000 hits

Arien