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

[Mark Russell]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:38, David Abrahams wrote:
> Not bad.  Also tolerable:
> 
>   as [classmethod]
>   def foo(bar, baz):
>      pass

The trouble with that is that its less clearly an error at the moment
(e.g.:

    as = [ 'pathological' ]
    classmethod = 0

    as [classmethod]
    def foo(bar, baz):
        pass

is actually legal right now).  The nice thing about "[as xxx]" is that
there's no way you can confuse it with a subscript expression.

Mark