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

[David Abrahams]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> <decorator>      # almost as easy, or
> <<decorator>>
>
> Is there near precedent in other languages that I don't know of?

I want to caution against these.  Turning </>, which already parse as
un-paired, into angle brackets caused embarassing parsing problems for
C++.  Now such things as 

      A::foo<X> y;

have to be written as

      A::template foo<X> y;
         ^^^^^^^^-----------keyword disambiguates parse

in some cases.

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Dave Abrahams
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