Re: A decorator syntax not yet mentioned (I think!)

From: Carl Banks (imbosol_at_aerojockey.com)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: 12 Aug 2004 16:11:17 -0700

Mark Bottjer <mark_bottjer@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<411ba1db$1@nntp.zianet.com>...
> With this
> syntax, though, the decorate block changes how the def statement is
> handled, even though they are at the same indentation level.

That's a problem only if you think of decorate and def as separate
statements. If, as with if...else and try...except, you think of
decorate...def as a single statement, then there is no problem. 

-- 
CARL BANKS

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