[Python-ideas] The way decorators are parsng

[Nick Coghlan]

2011/10/20 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
> If this gets changed we won't be able to give a different meaning to e.g.
>
> @(...)
> @[...]
> @{...}
>
> since those will all have to be accepted as valid forms of the syntax
>
> @<expr>

True, although the restriction could just be weakened to "must start
with an identifier" rather than eliminated entirely. Since tuples,
lists, dictionaries and sets aren't callable, that wouldn't be a
noticeable restriction in practice.

Cheers,
Nick.

-- 
Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia