[Python-Dev] Questions about '@' in pep 318

[Roman Suzi]

By "pythonic" I mean "in accordance with other Python syntax".
And I am not against '@', but rather against placing decorators
before the def. IMHO, it is confusing, error-prone and out of style.

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

> Roman Suzi wrote:
> > I think @ before def are unacceptable because they aren't too Pythonic
> > and thus break style and aestetics of Python.
>
> This is not a convincing statement. Who is going to define what is
> Pythonic and what is not? My understanding of that term was that it
> can only refer to programs (e.g. a function could do something in
> a Pythonic way - namely, if that is how other Python practitioners
> would have written it). The language itself is by nature Pythonic -
> even if it would add curly braces. Of course, Pythonic version 2.4
> differs from Pythonic version 1.4.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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