On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:18:25AM -0500, David Binger wrote: > My view is that decorator-notation should not be used for any purpose > if you would not, in pre-decorator-notation days, have considered > doing the equivalent operation. Using a decorator for classmethod +1 decorators are the latest hula-hoop -- Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentations into a form that the public can swallow. - Dorothy Sayers, _Murder Must Advertise_