Thanks Sven. That's just what I was looking for. For anyone interested, here is the message with Guido's gut-feeling back in 2004, and the in the subsequent few posts are arguments one way or the other:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/046711.html In summary, there is a discourse on "restrict people from doing ugly expression stuff in decorators", vs. "principle of least astonishment" in python's syntax consistency. Guido comments: "So while it would be quite easy to change the syntax .. in the future, I'd like to stick with the more restricted form unless a real use case is presented" On 5 Apr 2013, at 15:55, Sven Marnach wrote: > Guido actually gave approval for a change to allow aribtrary expressions > after the @ (about two years ago on python-ideas). There's also some bug > about this on the tracker. (I can't be bothered to look up the links...) > > Cheers, > Sven > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
