A decorator is a function that takes a function and returns a modified function - how would you write a decorator without nesting functions? Wrapping the inner

A decorator is a function that takes a function and returns a modified function - how would you write a decorator without nesting functions? Wrapping the inner function of the decorator with @wraps is quite common - one might consider it a bug in the language that the @wraps feature is not built into the decorator mechanism. But it is a valid point that decorators should not be presented that early.