[Tutor] Decorators

[Kent Johnson]

Alan Gauld wrote:
>> proposal for dynamic function overloading:
>> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155514
> 
> I really don't like this proposal nor many of the others that currently 
> exist to seemingly turn Python into Java and C++! If people want to 
> code in the Java porridge let them use Java not try to turn Python 
> into the same sludge.

FWIW there is enough perceived need for this (and adapters or protocols) 
that it has been invented already two or three times, in PEAK (by Philip 
J Eby, author of a popular "Python is not Java" rant*), Zope and twisted 
IIRC. The PEAK version has been adopted by TurboGears. I think twisted 
has abandoned its own effort and adopted Zope's.

So I don't think it is necessarily people who want to turn Python into 
Java, but meeting a need that comes up in large projects.

Kent

* http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html