[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:44, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Anyhow, I just meant that if you find a pair of characters that are 
> > illegal today then many of the objections about abusing existing syntax 
> > would go away.
> 
> So how about *[...]* ?  Or perhaps [*...*]?  Or [|...|]?

I'm -0 on whether it's necessary, but of these choices the latter seems
okay.

-Barry