On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 9:24 AM Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that the only
> thing I might use it for is to make it easier to annotate defaults (as
> f(a: list[int] => []) rather than as f(a: list[int] | None = None).
>

Why not `f(a: Optional[list[int]] = None)`?

I'm not counting characters, but that form seems to express the intention
better than either of the others IMHO.

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