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Fri Aug 6 20:25:28 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047184.html

Christian Tismer wrote:
> the primary purpose of all the decorator syntax effort
> is to get the
> 
> foo = classmethod(foo)
> 
> into the right place, not after but before the definition.
> 
> Dunno if this was mentioned before, but why not simply do that?
> Move the statement right before the def and provide a way
> that this gets recognized correctly.
> 
> No syntax change, just the convenience people asked for.

I don't think this can work. How precisely would you implement
it? Python traditionally executes source code from top to bottom,
except for loops.

Regards,
Martin

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