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

[Greg Ewing]

> Strangely enough, exactly the *opposite* argument is now being used
> to prevent syntaxes such as:
> 
>     def func (args):
>         @decorator
> 
> as was used then to allow:
> 
>     def func (args):
>         yield value

It's not quite the same argument, because 'yield' can appear
anywhere inside the body, buried arbitrarily deeply. Decorators
would only appear at the beginning.

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