Bill Janssen wrote: > So here's the summary of the arguments against: two style points > (trailing comma and >>stream) (from the man who approved the current > decorator syntax!), and it's hard to extend. (By the way, I agree that > the ">>" syntax is ugly, and IMO a bad idea in general. Shame the "@" > wasn't used instead. :-) >> Seems pretty weak to me. Are there other args against? Did you see Nick Coghlan's post? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056076.html I found his arguments to be reasonably compelling. BTW, the implementation he refers to in this post is at: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056075.html and the updated version is at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PrintAsFunction STeVe -- You can wordify anything if you just verb it. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy