On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:30:15 -0800, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > Technically, everything can be performed in assembly. The point of > syntactic sugar (or ammonia) is to make things less painful. While > everything was possible before, adding the decorators /after/ defining > the function hid the decorators, and was susceptible to mistyping. > > I previously posted about Philip Eby's use of decorators in PyObjC. In > his case, it saved him from typing 40-character function names 3 > times.
Bob Ippolito, you mean. And, no offense to Bob, but woopidy freaking doo. Now the vast hordes of PyObjC developers get to use their editor's name completion feature a little bit less. What an awesome justification for adding a whole new syntactic construct to the language. hoping-to-start-another-1000-message-thread-to-rehash-all-the-same-arguments'ly, Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
