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

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Mon Apr 5 06:38:41 EDT 2004

Mark Russell <marktrussell at btopenworld.com> writes:

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 05:33, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I, too, wish that there were a way to make it work with current expectations. The * prefix looks so arbitrary: why not /, why not @, etc... What about: [as classmethod] def foo(bar, baz): pass To me this is more obvious (and less like p*rl) that *[classmethod], and it is also currently a syntax error so won't break existing code.

Not bad. Also tolerable:

as [classmethod] def foo(bar, baz): pass

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