Terry Reedy wrote:
...
> Decorators will add complexity, regardless of syntax.
Especially in their current over-powered form. If decorators didn't have to
take arguments, then you could use a syntax like:
def classmethod foo(cls, ...):
...
This does add complexity, but I think it enhances understandability.
I understand why some people want to be able to pass arguments to decorators,
but frankly, I find many of the examples of doing so down right scary.
> An advantage of the
> @ syntax is than it makes the complexiity separable and ignorable for
> someone learning/teaching basic Python,
I don't agree that they are ignorable. People will see them in code
and will *have* to understand what they mean. Given sme examples
I've seen here, this will sometimes be a significant chalenge.
Jim
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