[Python-Dev] Questions about '@' in pep 318 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Aug 6 13:56:28 CEST 2004

Roman Suzi wrote:

I think @ before def are unacceptable because they aren't too Pythonic and thus break style and aestetics of Python.

This is not a convincing statement. Who is going to define what is Pythonic and what is not? My understanding of that term was that it can only refer to programs (e.g. a function could do something in a Pythonic way - namely, if that is how other Python practitioners would have written it). The language itself is by nature Pythonic - even if it would add curly braces. Of course, Pythonic version 2.4 differs from Pythonic version 1.4.

Regards, Martin

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