Is it possible not to use Flask decorators?

I don’t know why, but I don’t like decorators. Can I use

def load_user():
    if "user_id" in session:
        g.user = db.session.get(session["user_id"])

app.before_request(load_user)

instead of

@app.before_request
def load_user():
    if "user_id" in session:
        g.user = db.session.get(session["user_id"])

?

>Solution :

A decorator returns a new function, which the @decorator syntax assigns to the function being defined. Without using that syntax you need to reassign the function name.

def load_user():
    if "user_id" in session:
        g.user = db.session.get(session["user_id"])

load_user = app.before_request(load_user)