Alternative decorator syntax decision

David Fraser davidf at sjsoft.com
Fri Aug 20 09:33:17 EDT 2004


Istvan Albert wrote:
> Paul McGuire wrote:
> 
>> The significant alternatives have been listed on the Python wiki at
>> http://www.python.org/moin/PythonDecorators .
> 
> 
> This page lists all the choices and not just the alternatives.
> 
>> I would propose a multivote survey: each poster gets 3 votes among the
>> lettered choices on the Wiki page above.  You can use all 3 for a single
>> option, or split them across 2 or 3 options if you are open to more than
>> one.
> 
> 
> I have noticed that many people thought (or implied) that they
> should be voting only for alternatives. Others voted for the
> the existing implementation. This makes this poll even more
> unreliable than usually.
> 
> I don't think one should ever devise a poll to test for
> *second* options only. The second option only makes sense
> in proper context when compared to the first option.
> 
Thats because the point of this vote is to try and gather a consensus 
about what the best alternative is, not to try and out-vote the original 
contender. The final decision will rest with Guido anyway, so we just 
want to get together the best possible alternative proposal

David



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