[Python-Dev] A usability argument for list-after-def

[Kendall Clark]

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:35:08 +1200, Greg Ewing
<greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> "Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> 
> > Now, I don't know if my thought process here is at all typical or
> > representative of anything, other than my own idiosyncratic self.
> 
> You're not alone. I agree with *everything* you said there.

+1

Eby's is the best argument I've heard so far. I favor list-after-def
over @ for decorator syntax -- FWIW. List after def seems very
unambiguously some kind of modifier of a function or method.

Kendall Grant Clark
Managing Editor, XML.com