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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Aug 6 21:34:01 CEST 2004

On Aug 6, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

Mark Russell wrote:

I too like |. It is not quite as visible as @, but I don't think that's a serious problem, and not breaking ipython and other tools is a big win. I just tried implementing this change, and all the tests still pass (not a big surprise, but worth confirming I guess). To jump on the band-wagon - I can live with | as well. I was going to add it to the PEP rewrite, but I'll wait for a decision, to save myself the writing ;)

My only objection to | is that it looks near-identical to I in many fonts, such as the one I use for email, so it could potentially be confused with some sort of magical sys._getframe() using interface declaration rather than compile-type syntax.

-bob

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