decorator with keyword

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
> 
>> Peter Hansen wrote:
>>>The python-dev mailing list doesn't appear to have discussed this one
>>>yet, but given that much of the, uh, "chatter" that I detect there
>>>is about minor tweaking of the @pie syntax, I fear they are so not
>>>likely to pay much attention to new syntaxes and it might be too
>>>late to get much support for it amongst the core folks.  (Guido
>>>referred to @pie as "the humble @decorator" yesterday...)
>> 
>> I'm sure it would help if every supporter of this syntax started a
>> thread of his own on python-dev *wink*
> 
> Glad you put the wink in... I doubt that would help the
> cause.
> 
> The syntax should be presented there, perhaps, preferably
> by someone calm and reasonable (i.e. not me), but I think
> the most valuable thing is to continue discussion here
> until it's apparent (if that's going to happen) that there
> is a fairly wide consensus that decorate: (possibly with
> a different keyword) is far preferred to @pie...  At least,
> I think that was roughly what was asked for of the masses,
> if the masses had anything to say about the matter.

Full ACK!

Reinhold

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