[Python-Dev] 2.4a2, and @decorators

[Mark Russell]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 06:36, Jp Calderone wrote:
>    I realize there is little or no chance of '@decorator' being pulled 
> from 2.4a2.  I hope that something along the lines of the above will be 
> considered, instead, for the next alpha, unless there is widespread 
> community support for '@decorator', as opposed to the ridiculously faint 
> support ("it's better than nothing") currently behind it.

Personally I think it's not just better than nothing, it's better than
any of the alternatives I've seen, including the do-nothing option. 

I added a comment to your blog post in defence of @decorator --
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jcalderone/3913.html?thread=2121#t2121
but lets not restart a syntax debate here.

My guess is that the syntax will grow on people as they use it.  If not
there is the alternative of using one of the pure-python versions or
just carrying on using the existing way of doing things.

Mark