Re: Re: decorators again (Guido's @ solution)

Paul Prescod <[email protected]> Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:04:30 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
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Mark Hahn wrote:

> Guido has said: "If I could design a language from scratch, I might want to
> move docstrings to before the 'def' as well" in the same message he defends
> his choice of the at-string syntax:
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047112.html
> 
> So I think he is thinking of something like this:
> 
> @"""'doIt' solves all the world's problems"""
> @accepts(Int, (Int,Float))
> @returns((Int,Float))
> def doIt(a,b):
>     blah blah blah

I think that he was thinking of something more like:

@doc("""doIt solves all the world's problems""")

  Paul Prescod