Jed,
I was just kidding; I do think decorators are a better design. But I don't
want --download-python just so they can be used in a couple of random places :-)
Barry
On Jun 28, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Boy those decorators sure saved you a lot of code below. I cannot
>> imagine how anyone actually wrote code using python 2.4 without
>> decorators, the code must have been so long that it constantly
>> filled the entire filesystem and everyone's hands were so tired
>> from typing. Thank god for decorators!
>
> It's not an issue of quantity of code, but readability, in the same
> sense that it would be confusing to name the parameters to a function
> after the function rather than at the top. I think the 'with' statement
> is a far more important feature of python-2.5.
