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[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Call for defense of @decorators

Simon Percivall s.percivall at chello.se
Mon Aug 9 15:02:42 CEST 2004 
On 2004-08-09, at 12.38, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> I can't understand why we can't have a new keyword for decorators.
> If I remember correctly the introduction of yield didn't result
> in such a public outcry. We'd have to change our programs once
> if a variable names collides with the new keyword, but that's better
> than having to look at @s for the rest of our Python days.
>
> So how about:
>
> make classmethod
> def foo(cls, bar):
>    ...

I think "adorn" would make a better keyword in that case, as in
"adorn with" this decorator the method foo.

//Simon
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