Confused about pep 318

[Anthony Baxter]

> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/thread.html#45516
> > was over a month earlier.
> 
> That thread reaches no consensus, other than, in his sole post in the
> thread, Guido stating "I would love to see an implementation of this
> idea."  Nothing about "this is going to be in 2.4a2, anybody vehemently
> opposed to it?"  Like I said, the go-ahead was given privately.

None of the decorator discussions _ever_ reached a conclusion. As mwh put it,
"bike-shed-the-ultimate". At the end of the day, Guido's the one who makes
these decisions. His decision was that the @ syntax should go into 2.4a2.

As far as "private go-ahead", I've lost count of the number of people who
seem to think that this is somehow an issue. Would the bitching have been
seriously that much better if, half an hour before I committed the patch, 
Guido had posted a note saying pretty much what I forwarded on from him?
If so, why? Guido followed up to my note pretty much straight away confirming
it. Or would it have someone been better if Guido had done the CVS commit?

Yes, it would have been nice if PEP-0318 was updated in advance of this. I 
made an effort, but have run out of resources to work on it. If no-one else
gets to it before me, I will work on it again next week. But, suprise, Python's
a volunteer effort. No-one's paying me to do this, or Guido, or anyone else.
If someone wants to offer to pay me, or someone else, to actually do all this,
*great*.