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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:21, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Another possibility that has been suggested is
> > 
> > [decorator] 
> > def func(arg, arg):
> 
> And one that I currently favor.  I'm out of bandwidth to participate
> on a msg-by-msg basis, but perhaps folks can see if they can come to
> terms with this solution?

I don't like it.  It already has a meaning (albeit fairly useless) and
it doesn't seem obvious from just looking at it that the decorator is
connected to the following method.  It doesn't taste Pythonic to me.

-Barry