BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the essence of decorators is that it makes it possible to do
> in Python what you in other languages do with method qualifiers.
I find it fascinating that the addition of a bit of syntax sugar gives
the perception that a whole range of new and previously unthinkable
possibilities have opened themselves before us.
@X
def Y...
...
is merely syntax sugar (or syntax ammonia, for some) for
def Y...
...
Y = X(Y)
Anything you can do with decorators, you could do before (with the
exception of rebinding the __name__ of functions).
And yet, that bit of syntax sugar really _does_ make a big difference
to the lengths that people are prepared to take the possibilities that
the underlying feature affords them.
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