[Python-Dev] A usability argument for list-after-def (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Aug 5 23:37:13 CEST 2004

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

So there it is, my personal argument for list-after-def as better than "@", even if the list is over multiple lines: it's still much more clearly part of the function definition, and that IMO is the most important thing the syntax should convey, apart from listing the decorators themselves.

+1

I've been staying out of this because I thought my preference had no chance to make it in (i.e. I don't care between "no decorators" and "@ decorators"), but if it's getting some revival, I want to make clear that I think putting decorators after def, name, and parameter list but clearly with the function definition makes the most sense for readability -- in the simple cases. Who cares about the complex cases, because it's always going to be ugly?

Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it." --reddy at lion.austin.ibm.com

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list