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

[Walter Dörwald]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Walter> So how about:
> 
>     Walter> make classmethod
>     Walter> def foo(cls, bar):
>     Walter>     ...
> 
> I don't think anybody's come up with a candidate keyword that reads well in
> most/all situations.  Consider:
> 
>     make accepts(int, (int, float))
>     make returns(int)
>     def foo(arg1, arg2):
>         return arg1 * arg2
> 
> While you can contort "make" to mean what you want in this case it's clearly
> a much different meaning ("ensure that (or force) this function to accept
> and return these types) than "make classmethod" ("turn this function into a
> class method").  Other potential keywords have similar problems.

If you know what the keyword is, you can rename the decorator
accordingly:

     make argcheck(int, (int, float))
     make returncheck(int)

But we could choose a keyword that doesn't mean anything, e.g.
'dec' or 'decorate'.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald