[Python-Dev] Re: Call for defense of @decorators (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Aug 6 17:57:16 CEST 2004


So I spent a little time futzing with python-mode and some of my decorator code, to try some alternative leading characters. Of the ones that cannot be used in valid Python code today (i.e. no backward compatibility issues), I tried ':', '/', '=', '*', and '|'.

If the community can rally behind one of these, I think that would be acceptable. They all seem arbitrary, but so is the choice of '@'. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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