Paul Moore wrote:
> On 7/6/05, Michael Chermside <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Paul Moore writes:
>> > I also like the fact that it offers a neat 1-word name for the
>> > generator decorator, "@context".
>> 
>> Well, ok... does anyone *else* agree? I too saw this and thought "neat!
>> a simple one-word name!". But then I started worrying that it's not
>> defining the *context*, but rather the *context manager*. While
>> "context manager" is a term I could easily imagine associating only
>> with 'with' statements, "context" is too general a term... even after
>> Python supports 'with' statements I will continue to use "context"
>> to mean lots of different things (eg: decimal.context).
> 
> Actually, you're starting to persuade me... Although I generally
> prefer decorator names which are single words. Along with the at-sign,
> underscores make the whole thing look a little too "punctuation-heavy"
> for me (and don't suggest camel case, please!).

Anything against

@contextmanager

in analogy to

@staticmethod

?

Reinhold

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