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Are decorators really that different from metaclasses...

Arthur ajsiegel at optonline.com
Fri Sep 3 07:28:30 EDT 2004 
"Anthony Baxter" <anthonybaxter at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:24:42 -0400, Paul Morrow <pm_mon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > So I believe that --- whether you're a pythonista or not --- assignments
> > to magic variables really don't 'look' like normal statements.  They
> > look like they do something special (because they do).
>
> You continue to assert this, again and again. Many people have posted
> replies (including me) saying that actually, they _do_ look like
> normal statements.
>
> Repeatedly asserting otherwise won't change this.

I've become persuaded.

So we chnage the assignment operator, rather than focus on the __name__
magic.

Why not? We're justing playing/conceptualizing at this point anyway.

Art
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