PEP 318 decorators are not Decorators

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-08-13, Arien Malec <arien_malec at yahoo.com.REMOVE> wrote:

>>> decorator. One of the issues is that the Decorator pattern is more
>> 
>> The term decorator as used in the current discussion comes
>> from compiler writing. You have a syntax 'tree' which gets
>> 'decorated' with additional attributes.
>
> 1) That's not mentioned in PEP 318
> 2) That's in disagreement with http://www.python.org/moin/PythonDecorators
> 3) Won't most programmers think GoF decorators before compiler syntax tree 
>    decorators?

Thank you!  I spent a while reading up on "decorators" the
other day and was completely baffled.  I couldn't see that the
stuff in PEP 318 discussion threads had anything at all to do
with what was discussed by the references I found on
"decorators" (which were all about "design pattern" stuff).
So, I gave up and went back to work on writing a strip-chart
recorder using the Gnuplot module.

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