Decorators: an outsider's perspective

[Paul Morrow]

Chas Emerick wrote:
> 
> On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Paul Morrow wrote:
> 
>> As for the Hungarian notation, I agree that in its most abused state, 
>> it can be a real mess for all sorts of reasons.   However in Python we 
>> do use a very lightweight form of that in the way we identify private 
>> and semi-private methods.
> 
> 
> Ugh.  I know, and it's one of the little things about python that I am 
> not so fond of.  It has the feel of something that GvM did in one of the 
> earliest python scripts that just ended up catching on with a wider 
> audience.  It screams 'accident', not 'designed'.  Please, no more of that.
> 

Actually, that is another good idea (IMO), borrowed from other 
languages, and therefore familiar to many veteran developers.  It's a 
simple rule to remember, so I much prefer that convention to having to 
declare (with a separate word) the visibility of a method.