[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 5-aug-04, at 22:11, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:54:17PM +0200, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> Not every method is a property accessor. The metaclass does calculate 
>> a
>> default signature (all arguments are objects and the result is an
>> object) when it doesn't have better information (such as the signature
>> of a method with the same name in a superclass).
>
> Sorry I wasn't clearer.  What I meant was if we have a nice syntax
> for setting function attributes then the metaclass to transform the
> functions just like a decorator could.

And how would that solve this: 
<http://www.eby-sarna.com/pipermail/peak/2004-July/001598.html>

Ronald