[Guido van Rossum]
@EXPR: CODE
would become something like
def __block(): CODE EXPR(__block)
I'm not yet sure whether to love or hate it. :-)
Is it preferable for CODE to execute in its own namespace (the above being a literal translation of the given code), or for it to execute in the originally defined namespace? Deferring to Greg Ewing for a moment [1]: They should be lexically scoped, not dynamically scoped. Wrapped blocks in an old namespace, I believe, is the way to go, especially for things like... @synchronize(fooLock): a = foo.method() I cannot come up with any code for which CODE executing in its own namespace makes sense. Can anyone else? <discussion on the overlap with PEP 310 removed for brevity> - Josiah [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/052239.html