I think they're saying: def calling_context: bar(foo) is cleaner. The problem with decorators is that they don't know the calling context, or provide a mec

I think they're saying: def calling_context: bar(foo) is cleaner. The problem with decorators is that they don't know the calling context, or provide a mechanism to adapt to that context short of monkey patching. That said, they are really, really convenient.