[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Decorators last before colon (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Mar 30 18:43:46 EST 2004

Hm. So if we reversed the order so that the outermost decorators (such as classmethod) come first in the list, would that sway you to relent in favor of decorators-after-arguments?

Not really, because they're still hidden behind the argument list.

I don't like the reversed order, but I think I'd be a lot more comfortable with explaining that relatively minor semantic oddity to other developers than I would be with trying to explain the major syntactic oddity (relative to the rest of the Python language) of decorators-before-def.

OTOH to C# programmers you won't have to explain a thing, because that's what C# already does.

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

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