[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:32 PM 8/5/04 -0700, Bill Janssen wrote:
>I'd prefer (and I don't remember what the issue about this was):
>
>         def messageLength(self) as objc.accessor:
>                 return "XIV"
>
>         def saveSheetDidDismiss_returnCode_contextInfo_(self, sheet,
>returnCode, contextInfo) as objc.signature("v@:@i"):
>                 pass
>
>or
>
>         def foo () as staticmethod:
>
>I'm also happy with the
>
>         def staticmethod foo():
>
>proposal, but the point about breaking etags seems reasonable to me.
>Maybe when the PEP captures the dscussion we can all read it and come
>to a consensus, because we'll all understand what's wrong with the
>non-pie proposals.

See http://www.python.org/moin/PythonDecorators for a current pros-and-cons 
tally on the syntaxes you referenced.