[omaha] Decorators

[Jay Hannah]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Would you mind explaining what's going on here? I'm not sure what  
> you're
> doing. I've heard of decorators but never tried using them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_syntax_and_semantics#Decorators

My favorite design patterns book:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfdesignpat/

As luck would have it, the free sample chapter just happens to be on  
the Decorator Pattern:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfdesignpat/chapter/ch03.pdf

(I never felt good about any Decorator Pattern I tried in Perl (years  
ago).  -grin-)

j