[Python-Dev] Decorators: vertical bar syntax

[Guido van Rossum]

> If @decorator stays in, I fervently hope it won't be taken as a
> precedent for using @ for other things all over the place.
> Otherwise we really *will* end up with a language that resembles
> Perl.

That's dangerously close to rhetorical nonsense.  @ will always be
used to indicate meta-information (roughly speaking), while in Perl it
indicates a (certain kind of) variable.  Very different.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)