[Python-Dev] Re: Call for defense of @decorators (original) (raw)
Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Fri Aug 6 18🔞15 CEST 2004
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Tim Peters wrote:
[Barry Warsaw]
... In summary, I can definitely sympathize with the concern of tool authors who have settled on @ as a meta-character that Python will not use. Yup.
Having said that, it's quite possible that in the future some other feature will use the @ symbol - I think arrays have been mentioned in the same sense, although presumably not in the sense of @variable meaning "it's an array".
So, we either:
- explicitly list a symbol that Shall Not Be Used (I favour the unicode glyph for biohazard), or
- change the language ref that talks about this to state that although Python currently doesn't use these symbols, this is not stopping a future version of Python from using them for some new feature.
Anthony
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