{SPAM?} Decorators? Why have a special construct to support a pattern?

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Simon Wittber wrote:
> Decorators...
> 
> Why do we need a special construct to support a pattern? 
> 
> Do lots of people really use decorators that often?

I think that with decorators available, their usage will greatly
increase. With having to write foo = decorator(foo), I daresay nobody
got the idea to write function-wrappers that function like this.

Reinhold

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