PEP318: radical notion

[JCM]

Arien Malec <arien_malec at yahoo.com.remove> wrote:
> Apologies for feeding the fire, when we are rallying around a consensus, 
> but I've been concerned about the clash between syntax and semantics, and 
> I've finally reached a mini-epiphany:

> The problem with PEP318 is that it is too powerful, and tries to do too 
> much. It is a sledgehammer for attacking three problems:

> 1) Metadata, a la Java and C#
> 2) class & static method defs
> 3) Arbitrary post-definitional transformations of functions.

Agreed.  I think trying to address all of this with decorators is the
wrong way to go.