Sylvain MARIE via Python-ideas writes: > I totally understand your point of view. However on the other hand, > many very popular open source projects out there have the opposite > point of view and provide decorators that can seamlessly be used > with and without arguments (pytest, attrs, click, etc.). So after a > while users get used to this behavior and expect it from all > libraries. Making it easy to implement is therefore something quite > important for developers not to spend time on this useless > “feature”.
That doesn't follow. You can also take it that "educating users to know the difference between a decorator and a decorator factory is therefore something quite important for developers not to spend time on this useless 'feature'." I'm not a fan of either position. I don't see why developers of libraries who want to provide this to their users shouldn't have "an easy way to do it", but I also don't see a good reason to encourage syntactic ambiguity by providing it in the standard library. I think this is a feature that belongs in the area of "you *could* do it, but *should* you?" If the answer is "maybe", IMO PyPI is the right solution for distribution. Steve -- Associate Professor Division of Policy and Planning Science http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Faculty of Systems and Information Email: turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tel: 029-853-5175 Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
