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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Wed Mar 31 17:01:32 EST 2004

On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Simon Percivall wrote:

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.

I've stated many times that my preferences is the currently invalid:

def foo(args)[decorators]: pass

.. but I'll reluctantly accept Guido's suggestion if that's the only thing that's going to happen.

-bob

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