Idea for alternative use for @

[Bernhard Herzog]

"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com> writes:

> I thought it might be useful to include some sort of compiler directive like
> a C++ pragma to represent this kind of compile-time meta information.  And
> it struck me that '@' would be an excellent marker for such a statement,
> something like:
> @tabsize 8

FWIW, that particular directive already exists.  To set the tab width to
4 you can do either

# :ts=4

or if you prefer emacs style:

# tab-width:4

It's an undocumented (mis-)feature of CPython, though, IIRC.

   Bernhard

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