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> On Sep 14, 3:54 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com>
> wrote:
>> I don't like decorators, I think they're not worth the mental effort.

Fine.

I like them because they can vastly improve reusability and drastically
reduce redundancies (which I hate). Improved reusability and
reduced redundancies can make applications more readable, easier
to maintain and faster to develop.