A RetroSearch Logo

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Search Query:

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/046882.html below:

[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators [Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decoratorsMichael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Aug 5 19:00:23 CEST 2004
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> It seems a public outcry against @decorators has started.  When I let
> Anthony check it in for 2.4a2, the plan was to see how it fares in a2
> and a3, and possibly take it out in 2.4b1.  If you don't want that to
> happen, you might want to say something in public in defense of
> @decorators.

Like what?  I don't want to see that happen.

Do you want justifications, too?  :-)

I would beg of you to not give the idea that you or anyone else is
going to be counting votes on this at some point.

> An argument about timing: IMO there's no point in putting it off until
> 2.5 -- the syntax options don't get prettier, backwards compatibility
> issues don't get easier by waiting, and as it is it will probably take
> a year from 2.4's release in December before it is the mainstream
> Python version.

+1

Cheers,
mwh

-- 
  ARTHUR:  The ravenours bugblatter beast of Traal ... is it safe?
    FORD:  Oh yes, it's perfectly safe ... it's just us who are in 
           trouble.
                    -- The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Episode 6
More information about the Python-Dev mailing list

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4