Re[2]: Re: class proposal

Serge Orlov wrote:

>> Serge gave me a reference to some metaclass examples.  I am in the
>> process of trying to understand them and see how Prothon would deal
>> with them. Serge himself says that metaclasses are only decorators,
>> whatever that means.
>
> I don't remember saying *are only* decorators, I think I wrote
> "mostly as". I also think it's abuse.
>
> What do you mean whatever that [decorators] means?

I just meant that I don't understand how metaclasses act as decorators.
That is no surprise since I don't understand what metaclasses really are.
This is my problem.

> Don't you follow
> python-dev? Or do you think I use the word in some other way?

No, I've never read Python-dev.  They talk about stuff too complicated for
me. :-)