PEP 318: Can't we all just get along?

[Chas Emerick]

[...a lot of discussion about YA decorator syntax...]

I have no particular qualms about the syntax proposed by the OP:

def (callable)* blah (args):
	pass

However, I do remember GvR mentioning on python-dev that he did not 
prefer such a syntax because it would break existing tools that 
currently rigidly expect a regular [def blah (args)] function 
definition.

I did want to note that, aside from Paul's constant hope for implicitly 
typed functions based on their arguments (which we've already hashed to 
fine little bits :-), all this decorator debate is about some very 
minute syntax differences.  I suppose if that view makes me insensitive 
to others' syntactic hangups, so be it... :-)

- Chas Emerick