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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Apr 1 10:19:53 EST 2004

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:43, Skip Montanaro wrote:

IN this case there are other practical proposals on the table, not the least of which is the status quo.

So I hacked up python-mode a bit to support the syntax coloring of Guido's previously MFS (most favored syntax). I wanted to see if the concerns about visual obscurity were real or not. Then I rewrote a few methods of mine that would benefit from decorators (with some elaboration). A screen shot of my XEmacs buffer is here:

http://barry.warsaw.us/xemacs.png

Now, I'm sure most of you will hate my color scheme, but I'm used to it so for me, the decorator stands out perfectly fine. I'd have no problem supporting decorator-before-colon and vastly prefer it to decorator-before-def.

You can play with this yourself by checking out the latest version of python-mode.el (from sf.net/projects/python-mode). Note that you won't get the nice colorization on multiline decorators on the fly because XEmacs doesn't handle as-you-type font-locking across newlines well. Re-fontifying the buffer will pick up the right colors though.

-Barry

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