On Aug 2, 2004, at 12:55 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 01:14 AM 8/3/04 +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote: >> Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:40, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>>> @decorator won? When did that happen? >>> >>> First I heard about it was when I saw Anthony's checkin messages. >>> Maybe >>> it was throwing that pie that inspired Guido -- an '@' does kind of >>> look >>> like a pie. I think Anthony's checkin message was accurate enough >>> though -- it's the syntax everyone can hate equally. But I'm glad >>> /something/ made it in! >>> print>>-set-the-precedent-ly y'rs, >>> -Barry >> >> Hey, I was just going off Guido's decision (in email - looking back, >> it >> wasn't cc'd to python-dev, which probably explains the lack of 400 >> followups <wink>) >> >> Channelling the BDFL, I think the idea was to put it in 2.4a2, and see >> how it works for people. If it turns out that it's really really >> really >> hated, we can try something else in a3. Guido can of course follow up >> to this (hint hint) and give his own answers. > > I would think the fact that the '[decorators]' syntax can be > implemented in pure Python (no changes to the interpreter) for > existing Python versions would give more weight to it. That is, if > someone wants to implement a decorator that's forwards and > backwards-compatible, that's possible with the list syntax, but not > the @ syntax. ... but that also means you can still make the [decorators] syntax work in 2.4, if you want compatibility or don't like @syntax. -bob -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3589 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20040802/0b1718f6/smime.bin
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