What Pythonistas Think of Ruby

Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby by algorias on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @11:49AM (#1098142)

> Thanks, checking out PEP 3107 now. I've always seen annotations done with the @annotation syntax like the Python 2 snippet has.

The @ syntax is for decorators. Different beast altogether.

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Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby by steveklabnik on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @01:20PM (#1098417)

Ah. So, Python uses the Java annotation syntax for decorators? Hm. One more thing I'll have to look into when I get the time.

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Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby by rbanffy on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @02:47PM (#1098643)

Actually, I think Java uses Python decoration syntax for annotations, but I have been wrong before.

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Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby by pmiller2 on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @06:45PM (#1099281)

I'm pretty sure Python picked it up after Java did. But, I don't think it's a case of imitation; it's just that the glyph '@' happened not to have syntactic meaning attached to it and it looks okay.

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Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby by blasdel on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @05:08PM (#1099028)

No, they're exactly the same beast!

I've used decorators to add attributes to function objects in several projects in the past -- you don't have to wrap the original.

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