[Python-Dev] PEP 318 - generality of list; restrictions on elements

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

> From: Skip Montanaro
> 
> Yes.  I was thinking of the case where we wanted it to return 
> something
> useful which could be bound to the name "foo".  I suppose if 
> you've had too
> much caffeine you could dream up a case where w1() returns an 
> AST based on
> the original foo and w2() does something with it to cook up a 
> new object,
> but I suspect that would be pretty rare.

You could create some lovely obfuscated code ...

def decorator (func):
    return 1

def func [decorator] (a, b):
    return 2

print func(3, 4)

...
TypeError

:)

BTW, I have to say that looking at it, I don't like the decorator before the arguments. I'm immediately trying to read it as:

    func (decorator) ...

It's something I think I could eventually get used to, but I don't find it very readable. I guess there's not enough languages that do something like that.

Tim Delaney