Uh, I know what higher order functions are. You misinterpreted my comment, I wasn't saying decorators are more powerful than higher order functions. My point wa

Uh, I know what higher order functions are. You misinterpreted my comment, I wasn't saying decorators are more powerful than higher order functions. My point was that decorators are implicit in a way standard, explicit use of higher order functions is not. This "please, please learn" bullshit comes off as so smug and patronizing, did you realize? And when you're misunderstanding something it's even worse.