Purely emotional perspective

[Jeff Shannon]

Paramjit Oberoi wrote:

>I have to say though, that @ decorators are starting to grow on me
>even though I was strongly against that syntax at first.
>  
>

Personally, I'm seeing more and more usefulness in decorators as the 
discussion progresses, and I'm seeing more reasons why the most obvious 
alternatives to the currently proposed syntax are not optimal.  But I 
still find the current syntax to be *extremely* (painfully) 
uncomfortable -- this sort of prefix syntax is unlike anything else *I* 
can think of in Python.

I'm particularly worried about the proposals of using this as metadata 
for things like author -- that seems to be begging for almost every 
function to use half a dozen or more decorators (accepts, returns, 
author, design date, last revision date, etc., etc.) which will (IMO) 
seriously degrade code readability.  (This syntax is okay for one or two 
decorators, but more than that quickly becomes obfuscatory.)

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International