Decorators not worth the effort

[Terry Reedy]

2nd try, hit send button by mistake before

On 9/14/2012 5:28 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:

> Decorators are very popular so I kinda already know that the fault is
> mine. Now to the reason why I have troubles writing them, I don't
> know. Every time I did use decorators, I spent way too much time
> writing it (and debugging it).

You are writing parameterized decorators, which require inverted 
currying of the wrapper maker. Perhaps that is why you have trouble. As 
I showed in response to Cameron, it may be easier to avoid that by using 
a traditional post-def wrapping call instead of decorator syntax.

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Terry Jan Reedy