[Python-Dev] (Specific syntax of) PEP 318 - function/method/class
decoration
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 8 18:07:36 EST 2004
"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> The positioning is different, though. C# puts the bracketed list of
> "attributes" at the *beginning* of the declarations, so if we were really
> following C#'s lead, the syntax would actually be:
>
> class [interface] Foo:
I don't think we should be following the C style of putting variable
amounts of stuff in front of the name being declared. It pushes the
names into unpredictable positions and makes it hard to visually scan
down a list of declarations looking for something.
The proposed syntax has things in just the right order, IMO.
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