Decorator Syntax

[Mike Patterson]

In my Python class the other day, the professor was going over
decorators and he briefly mentioned that there had been this huge
debate about the syntax and using the @ sign to signify decorators.

I read about the alternative forms proposed here (http://
www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/#syntax-alternatives).

Has anyone thought about just using dec to declare a decorator?

For example:
dec dec2
dec dec1
def func(arg1, arg2, ...):
    pass