[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon
David Abrahams
dave at boost-consulting.com
Wed Mar 31 16:40:44 EST 2004
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:
>> >>> [decorator]
>>
>> Will it type ... and wait for you to say more? Or will it evaluate the
>> single-element list whose element is the value of the variable ``decorator''
>> and print the result?
>
> The latter. You can't add a decorator to a top-level function in
> interactive mode unless you put it inside an if.
That seems like a very odd special case to me. Is it worth it?
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Dave Abrahams
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