Arthur wrote: > FWIW, I also happen to think that the passion around the @decorator > debate centered around this issue - many people feeling that the > facility had the potential of redirecting Python inward. I still > cringe a bit when contemplating lots of @'s in the standard library of > Python3000. > > And FWIW, it seems that it seeems to me that sys.stdin.readline() is > more public facing than is raw_input(), and I think my gut preference > for it is on that basis. > > All said at the risk of having my own private conversation. > Interested in finishing my thought, and having to leave for a client and unable to wait to see if there is any general interest in its thread before I do so - its only empty bandwidth after all --
A petition I *did* sign was the one imploring Guido to reconsider his choice of syntax for decorators. I signed it in opposition and dissent to its contents (good that the petition provided for that). So that I was supporting Guido's choice of syntax, and asking him to stick to his guns - thinking that "@" isolated decorators appropriately as something other than Python business-as-usual. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
