On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:21:49PM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote: > On 2/28/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 2/28/07, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[snip] > >> History and Implementation > >> ========================== > >> > >> Class decorators were originally proposed in PEP318 [1]_ and were > >rejected > >> by Guido [2]_ for lack of use cases. Two years later he saw a use case > >> he liked and gave the go-ahead for a PEP and patch [3]_. > > > >While I can look up the use-case that prompted Guido to change his > >mind via the footnote, I'd appreciate having a sampling of use-cases > >listed in the PEP itself. > > > > It would also help as there is no explicit mention of what the > decorator gets passed (I assume the class object, but it is actually > not specified anywhere). Some pseudo-code of what exactly is > happening wouldn't hurt to more concretely specify it. > > And you probably want to submit this to the PEP editors to get it > checked in as Talin keeps talking about class decorators as if they > are already in Py3K. =)
Yes, Talin's metaclass post lit a fire under by behind. New version with all the feedback I got getting posted in five .. -Jack _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
