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

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:04:30 -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:

> 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""")

Luckily I get to do it my way since he can't change his.  I can even argue 
compatibility with the old doc strings.  It is certainly unambiguous my way 
and reads well.