[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Decorators last before colon (original) (raw)

Jack Diederich jack at performancedrivers.com
Thu Apr 1 00:27:55 EST 2004

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:41:00PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:21, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Another possibility that has been suggested is > > > > [decorator] > > def func(arg, arg): > > And one that I currently favor. I'm out of bandwidth to participate > on a msg-by-msg basis, but perhaps folks can see if they can come to > terms with this solution?

I don't like it. It already has a meaning (albeit fairly useless) and it doesn't seem obvious from just looking at it that the decorator is connected to the following method. It doesn't taste Pythonic to me. Me too, but no one contrasted my actual use cases with any in any other format, so I must be missing something fundamental. I support an all Guido ticket now and forever, but I don't get the pulling-the-rabbit-out-of-a-hat decorator syntax anymore than the at-sign assignment. Something in the water at PyCon?

-jackdied

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