Hi. Well i am a newbie to python and maybe not qualified enough to make a comment on proposals to changes in python. My previous programming experience has been in Java and C. So maybe you will forgive me if i make any outlandish comments.
But anyway here goes: I think instead what should be done is: 1.def gcd(a,b) expects (int,int) Here the function is not enforcing type checking. The compiler should only generate warning when someone passes something which is not an int and should not generate an error.Maybe the person calling the function knows what he is doing and wants to pass the unexpected type. 2.Another possibility is to let the function decide if the type is not what it is expecting. Maybe the function recvs some kind of flag which tells it that the type passed is not what it was expecting. So it can throw an error if it is really critical. 3.In my post i am not stressing on adding 'expects' as keyword or something. Only that type should not be enforced and 'expects' makes this clear. Rahul Garg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
