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[Python-Dev] Questions about '@' in pep 318

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Thu Aug 5 23:16:09 CEST 2004 
On Thursday 05 August 2004 04:55 pm, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
 > Good point. This paragraph should be changed, if it wasn't yet.

Now changed in CVS.

 > Every tool which deals with Python's syntax must be adapted
 > to the new syntax, no matter which new syntax is adopted.

I expect many tools won't be affected by @decorations.  Import checkers and 
function/method identifying tools probably won't care about the decorations.  
In the end, it very much depends on the assumptions of the tool and how it 
implements scanning and parsing.


  -Fred

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