[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon

[Paul Prescod]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>Why does <...> look better than [...]?  To me, <...> just reminds me
>>>of XML, which is totally the wrong association.
>>
>>I vote for << >>. The brackets and parens have too many meanings in 
>>Python already. <<staticmethod, foobar(baz)>> looks more like French 
>>than XML. ;)
> 
> 
> <<...>> has the same practical problems as <...>: no automatic line
> breaking, >> is ambiguous.

Sorry. I forgot that ">>" is also an operator. ;)

Anyhow, I just meant that if you find a pair of characters that are 
illegal today then many of the objections about abusing existing syntax 
would go away.

  Paul Prescod