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

Christian Tismer tismer at stackless.com
Sat Aug 7 01:20:53 CEST 2004

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 ;)

Ok, I dislike special prefix chars at all, in a language that doesn't have this concept elsewhere (despite strings of course, but their prefixes are just regular chars), but the bar "|" appears a lot nicer than "@" to me. The bar is small and friendly, a small character for a small feature. With "@", I associate a powerful, magical Voodoo thing, something that I never expected to see in Python. Unless there is a real need, I'd say save "@" for a feature that really deserves such a powerful character.

ciao - chris

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