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If you are using Ruby you might be able to use some variation of the "around alias" mentioned here:

Maybe even create your own little dsl for your approach.

I love that it's under a section called "spells". And actually it looks like it could be done with a variation of this.

This is why I love Ruby. It goes out of its way to let programmers be creative :)

Available in Haskell with the ViewPatterns extension.

Seems like something you could do with decorators in python, but would probably end up looking more confusing than the original.

A request for the language gods