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

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Fri Aug 6 18:37:13 CEST 2004

Guido van Rossum wrote:

- 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.

Does that really have to be stated? Isn't this just giving in to the silly lawyers? A reference manual describes the status quo. How can it possibly begin to describe future directions? (Except when reserving certain classes of identifiers like C does.)

Beats me. I'm just going from the comments that Edward(?) made that he thought the current wording meant that they'd never be used.

Anthony

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