[Python-Dev] -1 on @[decorator] (original) (raw)

Edward C. Jones edcjones at erols.com
Fri Jul 2 02:25:38 CEST 2004


There are three 7-bit ASCII characters not used in Python: "@", "$", and "?". Please don't waste one of them for the special purpose of decorators:

@[staticmethod]
def fun(args):
    ...

To me "@" says "not python". I use it in templates that generate Python code.

-1 for "@" in decorators.



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