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

Mark Russell marktrussell at btopenworld.com
Fri Aug 6 20:50:09 CEST 2004 
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 18:50, Fernando Perez wrote:
> The visual effect of | when initially proposed looked surprisingly nice to me 
> given its 'diagrammatic' appearance of drawing a graph between the decoration
> lines and the function definition.  So FWIW, I'd say that I personally kind of
> like it.

I too like |.  It is not quite as visible as @, but I don't think that's
a serious problem, and not breaking ipython and other tools is a big
win.  I just tried implementing this change, and all the tests still
pass (not a big surprise, but worth confirming I guess).

Mark
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