On R, 2004-07-02 at 03:25, Edward C. Jones wrote:

There are three 7-bit ASCII characters not used in Python: "@", "$", and "?". Please don't waste one of them for the special purpose of decorators:

@[staticmethod] def fun(args): ...

To me "@" says "not python". I use it in templates that generate Python code.

-1 for "@" in decorators.

a nice backward-compatible notation would be #[staticmethod]# but I'm sure that someone is using that in his templates ;) --------------- Hannu

I'm -1 on the @-syntax for the same reason as Fernando Perez; IPython from Scipy. Scipy has its own conference, so seemingly has a fairly large user base. IPython is an enhanced Python shell that uses @ for certain shell accesses and aliasing. Since there exists a piece of Python software (which may be used by a not-insignificant number of people) that uses @, IMO, using @ for decorators, when there exists two other valid syntaxes (either of which many have declared to be just fine), seems a bit irresponsible. - Josiah