[Python-Dev] Decorators: vertical bar syntax (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Sat Aug 7 12:42:46 CEST 2004

Lest my previous post saying I could "live with" the pipe symbol be misinterpreted, I still prefer @ over |. My main reason for preferring the former is that it's far more obvious in a page of code (I tried both). The pipe tends to blend in to a disturbing degree. Making it a different colour in an editor also doesn't seem to help that much.

I'm also concerned that we don't make a horrible precedent here - that a new language feature is changed solely because other tools that were playing outside the boundaries of the language will be impacted. This would be an utter pain in the arse going forward.

Anthony

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