Going the PL/1 way

[Miklós]

"Christian Tismer" <tismer at stackless.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1381.1092046190.5135.python-list at python.org...

> Ooh, this is truely too much fear. Decorators are about
> modification of how code is understood, but not modification.
> [ If it were so, then I'd be probably much more interested :-) ]

[..snip..]
>
> Now, with the mentioned extra line, the function object is
> modified in a way that it understands that it is an ordinary
> function, and it works in both cases:
>
[..snip..]
> What you have see is, that staticmethod has to be called *after*
> the function is defined. The modified function is assigned to
> the class as a post process.
[..snip..]
> to see whther the function is modified somehow.
[..snip..]
> This is the basic idea what a decorator does:
> Make modifiers like classmethod into a prefix
> of a function.

Great, so it's still about code modification.
With Python decorators, a method/function can be modified virtually in any
way, outside its declaration.
Sure you could override things before, too, but now this is a request for
code abuse.

Best,
  Miklós

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