[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon

[Simon Percivall]

On 2004-03-31, at 04.52, Terry Reedy wrote:

> Taking the prefix position as given for the moment, why overload list
> literal syntax versus something currently illegal and meaningless?  
> Such as
>
> <decorator>      # almost as easy, or
>

Yes. This looks better and will make it more clear that it's a special 
case. Otherwise the decorators will look too decoupled from the 
function.