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

Kendall Clark krunkle at gmail.com
Fri Aug 6 16:56:23 CEST 2004


On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:35:08 +1200, Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:

> Now, I don't know if my thought process here is at all typical or > representative of anything, other than my own idiosyncratic self. You're not alone. I agree with everything you said there.

+1

Eby's is the best argument I've heard so far. I favor list-after-def over @ for decorator syntax -- FWIW. List after def seems very unambiguously some kind of modifier of a function or method.

Kendall Grant Clark Managing Editor, XML.com



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