[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators (original) (raw)

Christian Tanzer tanzer at swing.co.at
Fri Aug 6 15:42:50 CEST 2004

Christian> To all proponents of list markup: that would be very hard to Christian> look up in the documentation. @ should be easy to find in Christian> the index.

It would be easy to find if you search for "def" or "function"... This idea has been raised before and is a red herring in my opinion.

I know about looking at the documentation of def. But you are assuming here that the puzzled reader associates the (leading) list markup with the function definition.

The trailing list markup (that I personally favored) hasn't been in contention since May? June?

Anyway, the pie syntax offers more index entries than the list syntax.

Tuning-out-for-good-now-ly yrs,

-- Christian Tanzer http://www.c-tanzer.at/

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