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

[Guido van Rossum]

> So I spent a little time futzing with python-mode and some of my
> decorator code, to try some alternative leading characters.  Of the ones
> that cannot be used in valid Python code today (i.e. no backward
> compatibility issues), I tried ':', '/', '=', '*', and '|'.

If the community can rally behind one of these, I think that would be
acceptable.  They all seem arbitrary, but so is the choice of '@'. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)