On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:01:42 -0400, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
For longer functions, it's a clear win; the '@' stands out nicely, especially with the python-mode.el font-locking support I just added. :) It certainly exhibits all the benefits that motivated adding special syntax for decorators in the first place.
I think this is also a strong point for the '@' syntax. How should an editor know that a list before a method is a decoration and should be highlighted differently? The backwards compatibility to python < 2.4 doesn't count in my opinion, because other features like generators and list-comprehensions also can't be used in older pythons, and the old syntax with the decoration after the method body is still available, so this is no problem. +1 for the pie syntax from my little voice as a user of python Regards, Florian Schulze