Call for signatories for J2

[Alex Martelli]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:

> aleaxit at yahoo.com (Alex Martelli) writes:
> > I think a keyword that's ALREADY a keyword has been almost ignored,
> > though people occasionally did mention it re decorators: 'as'.  I'd love
> > to see 'as' used as THE decorator keyword.  personally I'd prefer
> > 'def as classmethod foo(...):'
> > followed by
> 
> How do you handle the other proposed uses of decorators, e.g. type
> declarations?
> 
>     def foo as int (a as string, b as int):
>       ...
> 
> seems pretty awful to me.

Type declarations make me cringe, but if I *had* to have them then 'b as
int' is the best syntax I could imagine for them offhand.


Alex