[Python-Dev] A usability argument for list-after-def

[Aahz]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
> So there it is, my personal argument for list-after-def as better than "@", 
> even if the list is over multiple lines: it's still much more clearly part 
> of the function definition, and that IMO is the most important thing the 
> syntax should convey, apart from listing the decorators themselves.

+1

I've been staying out of this because I thought my preference had no
chance to make it in (i.e. I don't care between "no decorators" and "@
decorators"), but if it's getting some revival, I want to make clear
that I think putting decorators *after* ``def``, name, and parameter
list but clearly *with* the function definition makes the most sense for
readability -- in the simple cases.  Who cares about the complex cases,
because it's always going to be ugly?
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