[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> Sigh.
> 
> I'm just a lurker here and I don't really want to add to all the heat.

There's no heat here. There's just a discussion about something polemic.

> All that said, I'm +1 on the pie syntax (and being ugly means that it
> makes decorations obvious).
> 
> To all proponents of list markup: that would be very hard to look up
> in the documentation. `@` should be easy to find in the index.
> 
> To Gustavo in particular: people are sick of hearing endless repeats
> of the same old tired arguments (I certainly am).

I'm glad my tired arguments made you say your opinion about
the current syntax.

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