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[Python-Dev] Re: Decorators: vertical bar syntax

Andrew Koenig ark-mlist at att.net
Sun Aug 8 02:03:45 CEST 2004 
> > def foo():
> >    | classmethod
> >    | accepts(int,int)
> >    | returns(float)
> >
> 
> 
> Thats it!  I love it.

I like the following variation even better:

	def foo() |
		classmethod |
		accepts(int, int) |
		returns(float):

Alternatively,

	def foo() | classmethod | accepts(int, int) | returns(float):

Yes, I understand that the first of these would require allowing a newline
after the | without ending the statement.  If it were up to me, I would
allow a newline to follow any operator, but if that's too radical, then
allowing newlines between the def and the following : would be fine.
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