[Python-Dev] (Specific syntax of) PEP 318 - function/method/class decoration (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 8 18:07:36 EST 2004

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:

The positioning is different, though. C# puts the bracketed list of "attributes" at the beginning of the declarations, so if we were really following C#'s lead, the syntax would actually be:

class [interface] Foo:

I don't think we should be following the C style of putting variable amounts of stuff in front of the name being declared. It pushes the names into unpredictable positions and makes it hard to visually scan down a list of declarations looking for something.

The proposed syntax has things in just the right order, IMO.

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