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

Simon Percivall s.percivall at chello.se
Wed Mar 31 16:40:33 EST 2004

On 2004-03-31, at 23.01, Bob Ippolito wrote:

But is the special case of decorated functions/methods really worth adding a special case to current syntax rules? Yes.

But is it really wise to add the special syntax required to make your work easier (or possible) by overloading a currently perfectly valid (if non-sensical) statement? It's one thing that you really, really want a better decorator syntax; it's another thing completely that the new syntax is an overloaded and restricted list. That's just plain wrong for many reasons argued earlier.

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