[Python-Dev] Call for prudence about PEP-572 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jul 9 01:41:47 EDT 2018

Eric V. Smith wrote:

there is at least one place where the grammar does forbid you from doing something that would otherwise make be allowable: decorators.

And that was a controversial issue at the time. I don't remember there being much of an objective argument for the restriction -- it was more or less a matter of "Guido wanted it that way".

-- Greg

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