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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Aug 9 17:06:49 CEST 2004


If @decorator stays in, I fervently hope it won't be taken as a precedent for using @ for other things all over the place. Otherwise we really will end up with a language that resembles Perl.

That's dangerously close to rhetorical nonsense. @ will always be used to indicate meta-information (roughly speaking), while in Perl it indicates a (certain kind of) variable. Very different.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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