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

[Simon Percivall]

On 2004-04-01, at 17.44, 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 [|...|]?

Also: Is it definite that it should be square brackets instead of 
parentheses?

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