On 31 Jan 2005 19:41:27 -0800, "Michael Tobis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You may call it a strawberry, if you wish, but that doesn't mean it >will >> taste good with fresh cream. It's nothing more and nothing less than >an >> arguably weird syntax for a perfectly executable statement: > >This may well be true in implementation, but cognitively it is a >declaration that modifies the reference and not the referent. I see >that it is a big deal to ask for more of these, but I don't see why. Thank you for bringing it and respecting the cognitive factor. My "expereince* of the decorator, disassembly of internals quite aside, is that it breaks old rules - or, if prferred, breaks new ground - by impacting code one wouildn't expect it to kow about. It frightens me a bit when the road to Guru seems to move in the direction of most completely transcending the normal user experience, rather than in best comprehending it. Art -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
