[Python-Dev] Re: Decorators: vertical bar syntax

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Please remember the procedure.  The community is to come up with *one*
> alternative that they universally prefer over @decorators; otherwise,
> @decorators-before-def will stay.  (I'll even give you *two* if the
> community can agree that both are acceptable and really wishes to let
> me pick one.)

And yet in the poll to gain support for one option, we've been actively
discouraged by Anthony from participating on the grounds that "weight of
opinion" is no good ... ;)

(No - not an accusation - just a suggestion that the procedure is
possibly not clear to all the major participants).

Tim Delaney