[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon

[Michel Pelletier]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 09:47, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

>      as [implementorOf(IFoo, forTypes=[Bar])]
>      class FooToBarAdapter:
>          ...
> 
> and it could also be on the same line, e.g.:
> 
>      as [classmethod] def blah(cls):
>          ...
> 
> It reads a bit better with function definitions than with classes, but it's 
> not too bad.

Agreed, I missed this one.  It's not too bad with classes if you can
warp your mind to think of "to class" as a verb like "to define".

>   It's more of a replacement for the *[decorators] syntax than 
> the 'decorate:' syntax, but it's an English word rather than a symbol, 
> which brings back a bit more of the "Python look and feel".

One minor nit, why use the brackets at all?

  as sychronized, sharkfin(size=10) def VWBug(...):

that looks better to me than:

  as [sychronized, sharkfin(size=10)] def VWBug(...):

without brackets it looks more to me like Python, you'd never see:

  from foo import [bar, baz]

For longer lists of decorators use the familiar tuple rule, wrap in
parens:

  as (sychronized,
      sharkfin(size=10),
      deprecated) def VWBug(...):

-Michel