Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Aug 11, 8:30 pm, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> are decorators more than just syntactic sugar in python 2.x and what >> about python 3k ? > > Well, I argued may times that syntactic sugar is important (all Turing > complete languages differs by syntactic sugar only)
Although I agree that "mere" syntactic sugar matters, I think you're overstating the point. I would argue that most people would understand syntactic sugar as equivalent to a (very) localized program transformation. Things like first class continuations clearly aren't syntactic sugar in that sense. 'as -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
