[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Wed Mar 31 10:42:32 EST 2004
> > 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.
Why does <...> look better than [...]? To me, <...> just reminds me
of XML, which is totally the wrong association.
There are several parsing problems with <...>: the lexer doesn't see <
and > as matched brackets, so you won't be able to break lines without
using a backslash, and the closing > is ambiguous -- it might be a
comparison operator.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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