[Python-ideas] Statement local functions and classes (aka PEP 3150 is dead, say 'Hi!' to PEP 403)

[Eric Snow]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Carl M. Johnson
<cmjohnson.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>
>> I don't see why the leading colon is necessary, actually.  Isn't
>> the presence of a bare @ enough to signal that a function or class
>> definition must come next?
>
> Python's parser is purposefully pretty simple, so it's not clear if that could be added without ripping up the whole language definition.

and visually the colon _does_ make the syntax clearer.  It works
because it's so out of place at the beginning of a line.  Scanning
through code you won't miss it (and misinterpret what's going on).

-eric

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