Hello,
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 21:24:40 +0300
Paul Sokolovsky <pmis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 03:52:46 +0100
> Marco Sulla <marco.sulla.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's a crazy idea, but what if we could decorate a single line
> > of code?
>
> > For example:
> >
> > @Timer
> > a = time_consuming_function()
>
> Syntax-wise, I don't see any problems. As I mentioned in a recent
> mail, "@" here is effectively a prefix operator (unary in first
> approximation).
>
> But is that really compelling usecase? What if you want to time 2
> statements?
Thinking about it more, that would require introducing some kind of
"brackets" to delimit "decorated" statements, e.g.:
@Timer{
foo
bar
@}
And then it's just one step more to switch to brace-based alternative
syntax altogether.
Recent (of gazillion older) motion on that front:
https://github.com/umlet/pwk
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Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com
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