elements of decorator syntax suggestions
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sat Aug 7 18:48:19 EDT 2004
Tim Peters wrote:
> Overloading a unary prefix operator is out. As Anthony said, vertical
> bar seemed to be the leading contender on python-dev Friday. You can
> find tedious arguments there about most of the others that would go
> for you.
Why is | superior to @? | already has a meaning in Python, and it has
nothing to do with decorators ... at least @ has the virtue of currently
being unused in the language, and having the precedent of being used for
a similar feature in Java.
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