From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-08-09T12:39:56+09:00
Subject: Re: python-style decorators

On Aug 6, 10:23 am, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure how I feel about the use of declarative style. I'm not a
> big fan of public, private, protected to begin with b/c of
...
> Though it's a bit less convenient, it might be better to just name the
> method:
>
>   class C
>     def tak(x, y, z)
>       return z if x <= y
>       tak(tak(x - 1, y, z), tak(y - 1, z, x), tak(z - 1, x, y))
>     end
>     memoized :tak
>   end

Very much for reasons like this do I keepcauggesting that def be a
statement that returns the defined method instance. Then you could do:

class C
  memoized def tak( x, y, z )
    #...
  end
end

Further (not that I know python) I imagine this would enable the
"stacking" that the OP wanted:

class C
  memoized awesomificated def tak( ... )
    #...
  end
end

...as long as the decorating methods in play kept on returning the
method being affected.