On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 22:34, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Another thought about:
>
> [decorator]
> def foo(args):
> ...
>
> What are newcomers going to make of this?
>
> It looks like a thrown-away list followed by a def, and
> there's no clue that there's any connection between the
> two.
I think it's obvious that there's a connection between the two. A bare
list by itself would be nonsense and the actual list would probably say
something like [classmethod] which suggests it's saying something about
a method.
> And even if the newcomer suspects that there is some
> kind of connection, what are they going to look up
> in the manual?
Maybe they'll lookup functions in the reference manual? I assume they'd
be just as puzzled by:
def f(x, y, *args, **kwargs):
Who came up with that bizarre syntax? <wink>
Jeremy
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