[Python-Dev] Re: 2.4a2, and @decorators (original) (raw)

Nicolas Fleury nidoizo at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 5 03:11:28 CEST 2004

Just a question, when "as" become a keyword in Python 3, can we expect a new syntax using that keyword instead (or additionally)? There's multiple possible syntaxes using "as", even replacing simply @ by "as" would be an improvement IMHO, since that would be english-readable (as static method define foo), like most of Python.

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Not IMO, that would just add more mystery (and would require yet another hack in classmethod to allow it to be called without args).

Regards, Nicolas

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