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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Aug 10 00:10:35 CEST 2004

On Aug 9, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:

I feel like I've said as much as is reasonable on this topic, so I'll probably shut up and wait for something to happen. I'll then see if IPython needs fixing to live in a post-decorators world or not, and work accordingly.

Wouldn't it be reasonable to just change the magic character that IPython (and maybe even Leo) uses from '@' to ':', '=', or '/'? As far as I know, it's practically[1] never valid Python to start a line with any of these symbols (this list of not definitive, of course).
'/' has the advantage, for IPython, that it's easy to type (no shift involved, at least on my US keyboard) and should be familiar to many people as a "command" character from IRC clients, searching in vim and less, etc.

[1] It can be done with a backslash line continuation or in a multi-line docstring, but I wouldn't really consider that the beginning of a line in the practical sense...

-bob

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