[Python-Dev] Re: Decorators: vertical bar syntax (original) (raw)

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Sun Aug 8 09:22:43 CEST 2004

In article <004501c47cdb$355743d0$6602a8c0 at arkdesktop>, "Andrew Koenig" <ark-mlist at att.net> wrote:

I like the following variation even better:

def foo() | classmethod | accepts(int, int) | returns(float): Alternatively, def foo() | classmethod | accepts(int, int) | returns(float): Yes, I understand that the first of these would require allowing a newline after the | without ending the statement. If it were up to me, I would allow a newline to follow any operator, but if that's too radical, then allowing newlines between the def and the following : would be fine.

Did you omit the full wink? Or did you forget that | is already a binop? Strictly speaking I guess it's unambiguous if one doesn't allow arbitrary expressions as decorators, but...

-- David Eppstein Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/

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