On 01/06/2011 10:32 AM, Tim Harig wrote:
2. Your so-called PEP probably clashes with Python's use of @ for
decorators.
3. Do you really expect a language holding the mantra that there should be
a single way of doing things to embrace a language bloating feature
for what is effectively already possible with the language as it
exists?
Just as a side note, decorators (your #2, and an approved PEP) do
exactly what you mention in #3, as
@my_decorator
def my_func(...): pass
could just as well be written as
def my_func(...): pass
my_func = my_decorator(my_func)
so you #3 point is counterargued by your #2 point :-/
So the powers-that-be have certainly deemed *some* level of
syntactic sugar worthwhile.
That said, I'm -1 (okay, -0.5) on the OP's suggestion, both in
terms of the syntax clashing with decorators, and the need for
syntactic sugar in this case.
-tkc
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