Call for signatories for J2

[Michael Sparks]

Anthony Baxter wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:44:27 +0100, Michael Sparks
> <michaels at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> Using proposed J2: (tested)
>> class Foo:
>>    using:
>>       staticmethod
>>       eval("(memoise,esiomem)[x==0]")
>>    def Hoo(Who, *args):
>>       print "Yoo", Who
> 
> Why wouldn't you instead write this as:
...
[alternative using an if statement before]
...
> Don't use eval unless it's absolutely necessary, _please_.

The question was asking about using a conditional expression in the
decorator list. Since the closest equivalent as an expression that
evaluates to a function is something like (memoise,esiomem)[x==0] and
since you can only put function calls there, that was why I put eval
there.

I suppose instead I could've had:

def identity(actualFunc):
   def decorate(func):
      return actualFunc(func)
   return decorate

class Foo:
   @staticmethod
   @identity((memoise,esiomem)[x==1])
   def Hoo(Who, *args):
      print "Yoo", Who

Which is nicer, but still pretty hideous. I'd agree that the preceding
if statement approach is better than a conditional expression.

Regards,


Michael.
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