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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Mar 31 18:32:51 EST 2004

> 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. ;)

<<...>> has the same practical problems as <...>: no automatic line breaking, >> is ambiguous.

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

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