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

Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Wed Mar 31 18:10:10 EST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

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Why does <...> look better than [...]? To me, <...> just reminds me of XML, which is totally the wrong association.

I vote for << >>. The brackets and parens have too many meanings in Python already. <<staticmethod, foobar(baz)>> looks more like French than XML. ;)

Paul Prescod



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