[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Decorators last before colon (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Wed Mar 31 05:36:32 EST 2004

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

Another possibility that has been suggested is

[decorator] def func(arg, arg): And one that I currently favor. I'm out of bandwidth to participate on a msg-by-msg basis, but perhaps folks can see if they can come to terms with this solution?

Seems like it would be painful to implement.

Obviously that's not a killer blow, but:

If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

Cheers, mwh

-- If design space weren't so vast, and the good solutions so small a portion of it, programming would be a lot easier. -- maney, comp.lang.python

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