-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 1, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 10/31/07, glyph at divmod.com <glyph at divmod.com> wrote: >> As long as we're all tossing out ideas here, my 2ยข. I vastly prefer >> this: >> >> On 02:43 am, steven.bethard at gmail.com wrote: >>> On 10/31/07, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote: >> >>>> @property.set >>>> def attribute(self, value): >>>> self._ignored = value >> >> to this: >>> @property.set(attribute) >>> def attribute(self, value): >>> self._ignored = value >> >> since I don't see any additional expressive value in the latter, >> and it >> provides an opportunity to make a mistake. > > I was expecting this would be brought up, but that just ain't gonna > happen. If you don't repeat the name, the decorator has to root around > in the surrounding scope, which is fraught with peril. Solutions based > on sys._getframe() have been around for years (e.g. several the > Cookbook recipes) and if I had approved of that technique I would have > adopted one long ago. It's also not as if you're writing some string value the second time, so any typos in the name will be caught early on. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRyoLjnEjvBPtnXfVAQKcHAQAt8cmfJa93nVMX4/cIUTzUvke2LMhiKbj 5auo/TlymK6GMrKCLSpIOVfxMboj0tf5RqL8oS72OS6w6K+jlBiVFRZPf0NQtO1s WXsKDR/tw5B8iiTsoi8CRASsbEBetTrHIa5WqWqYbNk1sE7GNGTK4kIGoMd1txyp IdhLvYSJK7Q= =v4I7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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