[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318 & Community Consensus

[Fredrik Lundh]

David Goodger wrote:

> It may confuse users who don't expect a block to contain bare
> expressions.

blocks can contain bare expressions today, and such expressions are
evaluated, but the results are discarded.  plain function calls belong to
this category, for example.

> On the other hand, the ``@`` syntax is bound to cause at least as much
> confusion.

and that qualifies as an unbiased observation in exactly in what way?

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