[Python-Dev] Questions about '@' in pep 318

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 17:20, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> > How is this not going to happen with the '@' syntax?
> 
> It's of course hard to tell how tools will react to that syntax, or
> with any other syntax change, for that matter. This specific is likely
> easy to implement, because it likely has only minimal impact on people's
> parsers: one can essentially treat a line starting with @ like a
> statement, e.g. by making @ a keyword.

Not that it should have any impact on the decision in any way, but the
regular expression python-mode.el uses to syntax color pie decorators is
much simpler (to figure out and to read) than the previous decorator
syntax support of list-before-colon.

-Barry

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