On Feb 14, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 09:05:49PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: >> Saving about 10 keystrokes is close to trivial. > >The same argument can be made for @decorator syntax. > >And, if I understand correctly, the same argument *was* made against >decorator syntax: that it was trivial, unnecessary and confusing.
Well, not exactly. Remember that the semantics, and common decorators like property, existed well before the decorator syntax was added. We had a lot of experience writing post-definition "decorators", which taught us that the behavior was useful but the syntax was painful. And adding the syntax made a huge improvement in readability. Cheers, -Barry
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