Decorator "platform"

[Mel Wilson]

In article <87hdr5mq5g.fsf at pobox.com>, jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote:
>I don't doubt the utility, on a case-by-case basis, of some of the
>uses of decorators that people are devising, and will continue to
>devise.  I do fear that this is a pressure towards 'Babel-ization' of
>the language.

   It starts to remind me of a kind of obfuscation, codable
in, say, C++, where the visible text of the program is
actually irrelevant, and all the real computing is done as
side-effects of the constructors.

>I don't honestly know whether that fear is justified -- [ ... ]

   Ditto.

        Regards.        Mel.