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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Fri Aug 6 16:56:08 CEST 2004 

>> 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.

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

Ah, my apologies. I had list-after-def decorators in mind when I replied.

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

Until a couple days ago I don't think anything regarding PEP 318 had been discussed since June on c.l.py or python-dev.

Skip

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