You're speaking to the first part of my claim, but not the second, namely that JavaScript and CoffeeScript don't separate the idea of a function and a method, which is what allows you to use first-class functional combinators as decorators.
> JavaScript and CoffeeScript don't separate the idea of a function and a method
Neither does Python, at definition time. All the difference is in the processing performed by the class constructor (`type`) when the class object is created. Before that, it's a bog-standard function.
> which is what allows you to use first-class functional combinators as decorators.
Which is exactly like Python, the original decorators[0][1] predate the syntactic extension by several versions, the original syntax for applying them was:
I only intended to comment on the first part. Decided against cutting the quote mid-sentence. (Which led to me learning something new from masklinn's comment. =))
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You're speaking to the first part of my claim, but not the second, namely that JavaScript and CoffeeScript don't separate the idea of a function and a method, which is what allows you to use first-class functional combinators as decorators.
> JavaScript and CoffeeScript don't separate the idea of a function and a method
Neither does Python, at definition time. All the difference is in the processing performed by the class constructor (`type`) when the class object is created. Before that, it's a bog-standard function.
> which is what allows you to use first-class functional combinators as decorators.
Which is exactly like Python, the original decorators[0][1] predate the syntactic extension by several versions, the original syntax for applying them was:
And you could use the exact same syntax to define non-method functions (though not this decorator, of course, as it doesn't make sense for functions)[0] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=clas...
[1] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=clas...
I only intended to comment on the first part. Decided against cutting the quote mid-sentence. (Which led to me learning something new from masklinn's comment. =))