Are decorators really that different from metaclasses...

[Paul Rubin]

Paul Morrow <pm_mon at yahoo.com> writes:
> I believe that we should think of assignments to __xxx__ attributes as
> not being part of the function's body, but instead part of its
> declaration, just as we do with its docstring.
> 
>     def circum(diameter):
>         """This describe's foo."""
>         __author__ = 'Paul Morrow'
>         __version__ = '0.1'

That's fundamentally a pretty good idea, but conflicts with how we
currently use __xxx__ attributes:

   def fcn(self, x, y, r):
      ...

    class circle(shape):
       __init__ = fcn

should work about the same way as
 
    class circle(shape):
       def __init__(self, x, y, r):
          ...                   # same function as fcn above