[IronPython] Decorators on classes

[Michael Foord]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> from future import clr_hacks sounds like the start of an awfully slippery slope.
>   

lol :-)

Although I do recall suggesting a while back that it might be impossible 
to avoid incompatible syntax if we are to have full LINQ support in 
IronPython, and that a future import would be one way to go...

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Curt Hagenlocher
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:54 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: Re: [IronPython] Decorators on classes
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 2:27 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
>   
>> As other people have pointed out decorators are a runtime concept and I
>> don't think we get to change that.  So consider a class decorator
>>     
>
> You could theoretically have a "slightly alternate" parsing mode that
> recognizes a
> specific class decorator name before the class definition is closed
> (and therefore
> before codegen).  In other words, the following definition
>
>   
>> @ClrAttribute(System.SerializableAttribute)
>> class X(ISomething, object):
>>     
>
> treats the decorator differently if it matches one of the special-case
> names.  The change in parsing could be triggered by something like
> "from future import clr_hacks".
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 2:32 PM, Keith J. Farmer <kfarmer at thuban.org> wrote:
>   
>> CPythonista outrage over not being able to read something they could
>> never run is rather silly. :)
>>     
>
> You're clearly having trouble envisioning the following Slashdot
> headline: "Microsoft inflicts 'embrace and extend' on Python".  Silly
> or not, perceptions are hugely important.
>
> --
> Curt Hagenlocher
> curt at hagenlocher.org
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