Confused about pep 318

[John Roth]

"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message
news:411304AB.F53A5275 at alcyone.com...
> Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> >     Bengt> I too am very much against wasting '@' on @decorator!
> >
> > We could just switch completely to Unicode.  Then we'd have all sorts
> > of
> > punctuation characters available.  How about
> >
> >     # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> >     \xe2\x98\xbadecorator
> >     def f():
> >         pass
> >
> > ?
>
> Given how things are looking so far with the reaction to the decorator
> syntax, I'd say U+2639 might be more appropriate ...

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John Roth
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