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

Fernando Perez fperez528 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 6 19:40:47 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.)

As I stated before, it was always perfectly clear to me that in using @$? for ipython, I was taking a risk. So I don't feel in any way 'lied to' by the documentation, since nowhere did it make any kind of promise for the future. It only stated the current status quo, and that's how I read it. I decided to make use of that status quo for my purposes, but being fully aware that I might have to adapt in the future.

Best,

f

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