PEP 318 decorators are not Decorators

[Arien Malec]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in
news:mailman.1662.1092523102.5135.python-list at python.org: 

> 
>     Arien> 3) Won't most programmers think GoF decorators before
>     Arien> compiler syntax tree decorators?
> 
>     Skip> Not if they are unfamiliar with the GoF patterns (myself
>     included). 
> 
>     Arien> Google: [~62,000 : ~130 mentions of each sort of decorator]
> 
>     ...
> 
> BFD.... The thing is, just because in a verbal Rohrschach
> test you think "GoF" when someone says "decorator" doesn't mean
> everybody else will (or should).

Clearly, Python can choose any name for the auto-function-transformation 
syntax in question, but it's rather willfully confusing to choose a name 
that's heavily identified with a profoundly different semantics that's 
superficially similar in intent.

Arien