On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 8:54 AM, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Eric V. Smith] >> >> > there is at least one place >> >> > where the grammar does forbid you from doing something that would >> > otherwise make be allowable: decorators. > > > [Greg Ewing] >> >> And that was a controversial issue at the time. I don't remember >> >> there being much of an objective argument for the restriction -- >> it was more or less a matter of "Guido wanted it that way". > > > Start here: > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/046711.html
There is also an open issue about removing that restriction: https://bugs.python.org/issue19660 https://bugs.python.org/file32745/decorator-syntax.patch removes a test that raises SyntaxError for the following snippet: @x[3] def foo(): pass --Berker _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
