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

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Why does <...> look better than [...]?  To me, <...> just reminds me
> > of XML, which is totally the wrong association.
> 
> I vote for << >>. The brackets and parens have too many meanings in 
> Python already. <<staticmethod, foobar(baz)>> looks more like French 
> than XML. ;)

<<...>> has the same practical problems as <...>: no automatic line
breaking, >> is ambiguous.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)