Decorators

> Mark Hahn wrote: Why?
> 
> I always thought decorators were a kludge added on to a 
 > language when the original syntax was found lacking. Can't we
 > avoid them in Python by getting it right from the beginning?

You might as well say classes are a kludge added when the language 
syntax is lacking. There is already a proposal for a decorator in 
Prothon, isn't there? Weren't commands supposed to be indicated by a 
decorator? Consider the examples in PEP 318 
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0318.html#examples and these mailing list 
posts: 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-February/042739.html 
and http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045688.html 
and http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045700.html


http://prothon.org/wiki?pagename=DecoratorFeature

  Paul Prescod