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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Apr 5 12:44:20 EDT 2004

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.

I appreciate the suggestion, but the current parser can't handle that.

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

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