[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318 bake-off? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 1 19:10:03 EST 2004

How about adding:

2b) Prefix list with repeated keyword: def [funcattrs(foo=42), deprecated, overrides, classmethod] def foo(cls, arg1, arg2): pass class [singleton] class foo: pass 3a) Prefix suite with repeated keyword: def: funcattrs(foo=42) deprecated, overrides, classmethod def foo(cls, arg1, arg2): pass

You know, that one occurred to me in the shower, because it should parse easily. But I immediately rejected it as too weird. The stutter doesn't have any semantic connotation to it and is bound to confuse source-scanning tools.

(The nice thing about plain prefix list syntax is that tools which look for 'def' but don't process other statements are just as oblivious to it as they are to current decorator syntax.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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