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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Aug 6 21:39:53 CEST 2004

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 14:06, Michael McLay wrote:

Why was ';' not on Barry's list? It looks like it could be safely used as a leading character.

It wasn't because he didn't think of it .

Admittedly the ';' does suffer from not being as visible as '@', but at least the tail on the bottom dot makes it more readable than the ':' character.

The other downside is the potential confusion it might cause to geriatric elisp programmers.

I resemble that remark. :)

But really, at the very least, semis suffer from readability problems similar to colons.

bellying-up-to-the-bar-ly y'rs, -Barry

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