[Python-3000] decorators for variable assignments?

[Nicko van Someren]

On 21 Sep 2007, at 22:51, Terry Reedy wrote:

> |  @validate_proxy
> |  proxy = "http://user:passwd@host:port/"
> |
> | be a syntactical sugar for:
> |  proxy = validate_proxy("http://user:passwd@host:port/")
>
> Sorry, to me, this is syntactical pepper -- or worse ;-)

I'm thinking it tends towards "syntactic hákarl" :-)

	Nicko

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