Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jul 9 01:41:47 EDT 2018

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Eric V. Smith wrote:
> there is at least one place 
> where the grammar does forbid you from doing something that would 
> otherwise make be allowable: decorators.

And that was a controversial issue at the time. I don't remember
there being much of an objective argument for the restriction --
it was more or less a matter of "Guido wanted it that way".

-- 
Greg

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