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Fri Aug 6 16:20:52 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047106.html

"Edward K. Ream" <edreamleo at charter.net> writes:

>> > annotate.accepts(int, (int,float))
>>
>> I don't understand. How are you changing/annotating the function?
>
> I'm glad you asked.  My suggestion was that the compiler turn
>
> annotate.accepts(int, (int,float))
>
> into exactly what it would have turned
>
> @accepts(int, (int,float))
>
> into.

I don't like this sort of idea: something that's done by the compiler
should *look* like it is being done by the compiler, i.e. be new
syntax.

Cheers,
mwh

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