Extending Decorators

[nilamo]

A suggestion is that decorators be extended to make the earlier example valid syntax.
That is, the following two pieces of code would produce the same behavior.

@give_extra_functionality
foo
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foo = give_extra_functionality (foo)

Good lord, I hope not. That looks like a do-nothing statement, not a late-bound decorator. A decorator fundamentally changes what a function is, having that separated from the function definition doesn't seem to make practical sense.