[Python-3000] decorators for variable assignments?

[Guido van Rossum]

Can we stop this already? The idea is dead. No need to drag it through
the mud around town for an extended period of time.

On 9/21/07, Nicko van Someren <nicko at nicko.org> wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2007, at 22:51, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> > |  @validate_proxy
> > |  proxy = "http://user:passwd@host:port/"
> > |
> > | be a syntactical sugar for:
> > |  proxy = validate_proxy("http://user:passwd@host:port/")
> >
> > Sorry, to me, this is syntactical pepper -- or worse ;-)
>
> I'm thinking it tends towards "syntactic hákarl" :-)
>
>         Nicko
>
> [*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakarl
>
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