[Python-Dev] Re: Call for defense of @decorators

[Anthony Baxter]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Barry Warsaw]
>>...
>>In summary, I can definitely sympathize with the concern of tool authors
>>who have settled on @ as a meta-character that Python will not use.
> 
> Yup.

Having said that, it's quite possible that in the future some other
feature will use the @ symbol - I think arrays have been mentioned
in the same sense, although presumably not in the sense of @variable
meaning "it's an array".

So, we either:
  - explicitly list a symbol that Shall Not Be Used (I favour the
unicode glyph for biohazard), or
  - change the language ref that talks about this to state that although
Python currently doesn't use these symbols, this is not stopping a
future version of Python from using them for some new feature.

Anthony


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