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[Python-Dev] Re: Call for defense of @decorators

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Aug 6 18:34:14 CEST 2004 
> - change the language ref that talks about this to state that
> although Python currently doesn't use these symbols, this is not
> stopping a future version of Python from using them for some new
> feature.

Does that really have to be stated?  Isn't this just giving in to the
silly lawyers?  A reference manual describes the status quo.  How can
it possibly begin to describe future directions?  (Except when
reserving certain classes of identifiers like C does.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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