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

[Christian Tismer]

Anthony Baxter wrote:

> Mark Russell wrote:
> 
>> I too like |.  It is not quite as visible as @, but I don't think that's
>> a serious problem, and not breaking ipython and other tools is a big
>> win.  I just tried implementing this change, and all the tests still
>> pass (not a big surprise, but worth confirming I guess).
> 
> 
> To jump on the band-wagon - I can live with | as well. I was going to
> add it to the PEP rewrite, but I'll wait for a decision, to save myself
> the writing ;)

Ok, I dislike special prefix chars at all, in a language that
doesn't have this concept elsewhere (despite strings of course,
but their prefixes are just regular chars),
but the bar "|" appears a lot nicer than "@" to me.
The bar is small and friendly, a small character for a small
feature. With "@", I associate a powerful, magical Voodoo
thing, something that I never expected to see in Python.
Unless there is a real need, I'd say save "@" for a feature that
really deserves such a powerful character.

ciao - chris

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