@decorators

[Mark Bottjer]

David Fraser wrote:
> John Roth wrote:
> 
>> "daishi" <google at daishi.fastmail.fm> wrote in message
>> news:d22692a3.0408052233.3459c3fa at posting.google.com...
>>
>>> For what it's worth:
>>>
>>> As far as I know, the proposed @decorator syntax will be the first
>>> time that two logical lines of python with the same indentation will
>>> not be independent of one another.
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> try - except - finally
>> if - elif - else
>> while - else
> 
> I think he mean two consecutive lines of python code with the same 
> indentation.

That's how I took it. From another angle, each of the clauses in 
try/except/finally et al start a suite (i.e., end in ':'); @dec does 
not. Except for the funny symbol, it looks just like any other 
statement--but it sure doesn't act like one.

   -- Mark