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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Aug 20 02:07:36 CEST 2004

I agree with Gareth on both of his main points: I didn't buy Guido's rejection of list-after-def (and so argued against his points in another thread here); but the decorator suite before the def (J2) is quite nice also, and it doesn't hide the def when there are lots of decorators (due to the indentation). I would strongly support either proposal over the current @decorators.

So pick a favorite already and argue with the folks on c.l.py about which one will be presented to me. I'm serious. I don't want a hundred people arguing their separate points with me. If that's all I get the current syntax stays. If the community can agree on something they can support, I will listen. But it has to be a unified voice.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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