Re: [Python-ideas] Statement local functions and classes (aka PEP 3150 is dead, say 'Hi!' to PEP 403)

On Oct 12, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

I don't see why the leading colon is necessary, actually. Isn't the presence of a bare @ enough to signal that a function or class definition must come next?

Python's parser is purposefully pretty simple, so it's not clear if that could be added without ripping up the whole language definition.