[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

[Greg Ewing]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:

> That argument has been done to death several times in the last year 
> here.  Function attributes aren't a replacement for decorators.

Just to be clear, I wasn't arguing in my last post that decorators
should be replaced by function attributes. I was questioning the
assumption that "use cases exist for long decorators, therefore any
syntax for decorators needs to accommodate them".

In other words, a syntax for short decorators plus a syntax for long
function arguments might be sufficient.

There might even be a proof of sorts for this: arguments to the
decorator can be substituted with attributes on the function about to
be decorated, which the decorator extracts.

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