On Jan 4, 10:07 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aspineux wrote: > > Hi > > > I read the PEP 3117 about the new "Postfix type declarations" in > > Python3000. > > THIS PEP as been REJECTED ! > > Of course. That was a joke. > > > And I think this is a good idea to include typing in python. > > Python doesn't really need explicit type declarations. > They're not needed for correctness, and they're not needed for > performance. Take a look at Shed Skin, which is able to hard-compile Python > using type inference without explicit type declarations. > > (I'm writing as someone who's used and liked very strictly typed > languages like Ada and Modula. Python actually does unusually well > without declarations. Most languages that don't have declarations > run into difficulties. Consider Basic, TCL, and Matlab, to name > three rather diverse examples. Python managed to avoid the problems > those languages have.) > > John Nagle
Interesting. And how did it do that? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
