Decorators proposal

[Christopher T King]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Daniel Dittmar wrote:

> RebelGeekz wrote:
> > Just my humble opinion:
> >
> > def bar(low,high):
> >     meta:
> >         accepts(int,int)
> >         returns(float)
> >     #more code
> 
> +1
> 
> This also allows to set function properties inside of the function
> def handler (match):
>     meta:
>         pattern = re.compile (...)

Ooh, perty!  I especially like the extension of this idea into function
attributes; it looks even cleaner than the .attribute syntax I like.

The only problem I see with this is that Guido seems to want decorators to
be more prominent than the function signature itself, so he probably
certainly won't go for "hiding" then in a doubly-nested block.  (I write
"hiding" in quotes because I'm of the opinion that placing decorators
after a one- or two-line function signature does nothing to obscure the
decorators.)