[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Can't we all just get along? (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) tdelaney at avaya.com
Thu Aug 19 08:37:24 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

From the posts I've seen here, the only alternatives that have considerable popular support are ones that you've already rejected. So I suspect nobody really feels it's worth trying. Well, do people generally buy those rejections, or is their consensus that I'm mistaken?

I don't know about consensus, but there are a considerable number of people who think you're mistaken (it's gotten pretty heated over on c.l.py at times).

Personally, I think you're mistaken about decorators being hidden in list-after-def, and problems with large, multi-line decorators - I think such problems would be few and far between. I also think that decorators are not the most important part of a function's signature - even classmethod - but should be part of a function's signature.

Tim Delaney



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