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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Aug 7 11:31:29 CEST 2004

Florian Schulze wrote:

Does it really need to be only one character? Would this make the parser to complicated? If not, I would propose '::' which stands out much more than ':'

Anything involving colon might break tools who believe that in Python, the colon opens a block. Of course, it might then also be that these tools recognize that there text after the colon (both after the first and after the second one), and assume that this uses the single-line version of suite.

What about '~'?

It already is a unary operator:

def foo(): ... return 1 ... ~foo() -2

Regards, Martin

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