[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Let's not give in to FUD (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Fri Apr 2 11:59:47 EST 2004


Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

At least with decorator-before-colon trying to run the code in older interpreters will barf loudly.

On Friday 02 April 2004 11:34 am, Michael Hudson wrote:

I think this is a good point that hadn't occurred to me: silent failures suck.

There's also the little matter that using syntax only, without new keywords, allows us to avoid future imports and all the implementation cruft that entails.

Decorator-before-colon wins out big time for me.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation



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