On Aug 9, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Simon Percivall wrote: > On 2004-08-09, at 12.38, Walter Dörwald wrote: >> I can't understand why we can't have a new keyword for decorators. >> If I remember correctly the introduction of yield didn't result >> in such a public outcry. We'd have to change our programs once >> if a variable names collides with the new keyword, but that's better >> than having to look at @s for the rest of our Python days. >> >> So how about: >> >> make classmethod >> def foo(cls, bar): >> ... > > I think "adorn" would make a better keyword in that case, as in > "adorn with" this decorator the method foo. I don't think that's appropriate at all. Most decorators are transformations that change the function object into something else entirely, most likely by wrapping it but quite possibly not. I think the idea of adding a new keyword has already been dismissed, though. -bob
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