[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon
David Abrahams
dave at boost-consulting.com
Mon Apr 5 06:38:41 EDT 2004
Mark Russell <marktrussell at btopenworld.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 05:33, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> I, too, wish that there were a way to make it work with current
>> expectations. The * prefix looks so arbitrary: why not /, why not @,
>> etc...
>
> What about:
>
> [as classmethod]
> def foo(bar, baz):
> pass
>
> To me this is more obvious (and less like p*rl) that *[classmethod], and
> it is also currently a syntax error so won't break existing code.
Not bad. Also tolerable:
as [classmethod]
def foo(bar, baz):
pass
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Dave Abrahams
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