[Python-Dev] Re: Call for defense of @decorators

[Christian Tismer]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

>>So I spent a little time futzing with python-mode and some of my
>>decorator code, to try some alternative leading characters.  Of the ones
>>that cannot be used in valid Python code today (i.e. no backward
>>compatibility issues), I tried ':', '/', '=', '*', and '|'.
> 
> 
> If the community can rally behind one of these, I think that would be
> acceptable.  They all seem arbitrary, but so is the choice of '@'. :-)

Not that I want to put more oil into this never ending
story, but I think a few messages ago you mentioned that
the primary purpose of all the decorator syntax effort
is to get the

foo = classmethod(foo)

into the right place, not after but before the definition.

Dunno if this was mentioned before, but why not simply do that?
Move the statement right before the def and provide a way
that this gets recognized correctly.

No syntax change, just the convenience people asked for.

Well, just an idea -- chris

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