[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Let's not give in to FUD (original) (raw)
David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Fri Apr 2 15:48:07 EST 2004
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"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at acm.org> writes:
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.
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