[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

[Bob Ippolito]

On Aug 5, 2004, at 7:02 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> Except + and - would be valid Python syntax already ;)
>
> Ah, yes, the unary +. It's not clear to me why we need to have this -
> the unary - is certainly necessary. So we still have * and / :-)
>
>> Aesthetically I much prefer @ over ! or %.  !looks !bad !next !to 
>> !text !because !it !doesn't !stand !out and %makes %me %think %of 
>> %comments %in %another %language.
>
> So we do need Unicode after all :-)
>
>     ►classmethod
>     def foo():
>       pass

In AppleScript-ese that might be

«classmethod»
def foo():
	pass

:)