[Python-Dev] Re: Call for defense of @decorators
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Fri Aug 6 21:39:53 CEST 2004
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 14:06, Michael McLay wrote:
> Why was ';' not on Barry's list? It looks like it could be safely used as a
> leading character.
It wasn't because he didn't think of it <wink>.
> Admittedly the ';' does suffer from not being as visible as '@', but at least
> the tail on the bottom dot makes it more readable than the ':' character.
>
> The other downside is the potential confusion it might cause to geriatric
> elisp programmers.
<snort> I resemble that remark. :)
But really, at the very least, semis suffer from readability problems
similar to colons.
bellying-up-to-the-bar-ly y'rs,
-Barry
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