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

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Fri Aug 6 18:37:13 CEST 2004 
Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>- 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.)

Beats me. I'm just going from the comments that Edward(?) made that
he thought the current wording meant that they'd never be used.

Anthony


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