It was and is all very intentional. I don't want to encourage line noise, which the at-sign already resembles. But namespacing and some form of parametrization (i.e. calls) are essential. So that's what we got.
On Sep 16, 2017 11:30 AM, "Skip Montanaro" <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Indeed, I can’t remember a single time where I’ve needed that, let alone > actually realized the restriction existed. > > Likewise. I suspect the use of a function sort of just fell out from the > pre-decorator usage. Things like staticmethod() > <https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#staticmethod> and > classmethod() > <https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#classmethod> were used > well before decorators were available. (According to the linked 2.7 doc > references, both were introduced in 2.2, with decorator tweaks coming along > in 2.4.) In fact, those two functions might have been the most significant > driving force in the development of decorators, which, I believe, were > always just thought if as nothing more than syntactic sugar for existing > common use cases. > > Skip > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > guido%40python.org > >
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