request: python style decorators / aspect orientation

[Bill Baxter]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
> My exact feelings when OOP was all the rage. People dancing on rooftops 
> hailing the Object. And all it was, was simply structs, and functions 
> that pretended to be inside their scope. And folks saying "saving the 
> objects" when they should have said "writing the data in some of the 
> fields of some of the struct instances to disk".

No no no.  You mean "object PERSISTENCE". Sounds a lot fancier. (But 
also just means "saving some objects", which means just "writing some 
data from some struts to disk")   :-)

> For a long time I thought I was stupid because "I didn't get it". Turned 
> out there wasn't anything to "get". Or rather, the thing to get was the 
> previous sentence.

Maybe it seems like a big deal if you grew up programming Cobol or 
something.  I never did really get the OO craze either.  I remember at 
one point thinking "I must be missing something big here" so I bought 
and read Timothy Budd's book "Object Oriented Programming".  I got some 
exposure to SmallTalk from that, which was nice, but other than that it 
was pretty much a disappointment.

--bb