J2 proposal: keyword

[Dan Sommers]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:36:31 -0700,
"David Pokorny" <davebrok at soda.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> There must be some cognitive-visual thingamajig going on here because I find

> using:
>     staticmethod synchronized memoize
> def bar(foo):
>     "upends the established order of metasyntactic keywords"
>     pass

> much more readable than

> @staticmethod synchronized memoize
> def bar(foo):
>     "upends the established order of metasyntactic keywords"
>     pass

> [I think it has something to do with the traffic jam at the left margin.]

I agree.  That traffic jam seems to promote staticmethod to the sole
decorator, and demote synchronized and memoize to sub-decorators of
staticmethod.

IMO, simply adding a space after the pie puts all three decorators "at
the same level":

    @ staticmethod synchronized memoize

That said, I'd prefer a keyword and a colon over that pie-thingy any
day.

Regards,
Dan

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