[Python-Dev] Plea for simpler decorator syntax, in addition to pie-shaped syntax (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Wed Aug 4 17:47:32 CEST 2004


> def classmethod foo(cls, ...): > ...

This was rejected a long time ago because it complicated life for editor colorizing support

Oh, Fred, please! "Complicated life"? (and, "Editor colorizing support"?!) Much as I love python-mode, it hardly seems a good reason to add a whole new syntactic branch to Python, particularly when editors are really good at identifying a small set of distinguished words in distinguished positions.

By the way, if we're going down the road of compile-time markup, how about a real macro language :-?

Bill



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