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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 14:06, Michael McLay wrote:

> Why was  ';' not on Barry's list? It looks like it could be safely used as a 
> leading character.

It wasn't because he didn't think of it <wink>.

> Admittedly the ';' does suffer from not being as visible as '@', but at least 
> the tail on the bottom dot makes it more readable than the ':' character. 
> 
> The other downside is the potential confusion it might cause to geriatric 
> elisp programmers.

<snort> I resemble that remark. :)

But really, at the very least, semis suffer from readability problems
similar to colons.

bellying-up-to-the-bar-ly y'rs,
-Barry

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