[Python-Dev] Plea for simpler decorator syntax,
in addition to pie-shaped syntax
Bill Janssen
janssen at parc.com
Wed Aug 4 17:47:32 CEST 2004
> > def classmethod foo(cls, ...):
> > ...
>
> This was rejected a long time ago because it complicated life for editor
> colorizing support
Oh, Fred, please! "Complicated life"? (and, "Editor colorizing
support"?!) Much as I love python-mode, it hardly seems a good reason
to add a whole new syntactic branch to Python, particularly when
editors are really good at identifying a small set of distinguished
words in distinguished positions.
By the way, if we're going down the road of compile-time markup, how
about a real macro language :-?
Bill
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