[Python-Dev] -1 on @[decorator]

[Hannu Krosing]

On R, 2004-07-02 at 03:25, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> There are three 7-bit ASCII characters not used in Python: "@", "$", and 
> "?". Please don't waste one of them for the special purpose of decorators:
> 
>     @[staticmethod]
>     def fun(args):
>         ...
> 
> To me "@" says "not python". I use it in templates that generate Python 
> code.
> 
> -1 for "@" in decorators.

a nice backward-compatible notation would be
#[staticmethod]#

but I'm sure that someone is using that in his templates ;)

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Hannu