just ignore Guido's "rejections" [Re: Alternative decorator syntax decision]

Doug Holton insert at spam.here
Fri Aug 20 10:50:18 EDT 2004


> Anthony Baxter wrote:
>> This form (decorators inside the block) has been pretty convincingly
>> ruled out by Guido. I think the "last man standing" is the 
>> decorator-before-def
>> form, I really doubt you're going to convince people that  the form 
>> inside the
>> function is workable.

We can safely ignore Guido's "rejections" when deciding upon an 
alternative to agree upon.  Many people felt his rejections of C1 (a 
longtime community favorite), E1 and other alternatives were wrong.
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