* Duncan Booth:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote:
I'm not sure I like your idea of introducing static typing to increase
speed, but it could be done without introducing new syntax simply by
defining a special meaning to such annotation expressions that are
'type' invocations, say, then like
def speed( dist: type( float ), time: type( float ) ) -> type(
float )
That would be particularly useless:
type(float) is type
True
So your declaration is identical to:
def speed(dist: type, time: type) -> type:
That's the point.
Much better just to stick to something like:
def speed( dist: float, time: float ) -> float:
where at least you can tell from the annotations what types were actually
used.
No, you do not want to redefine the meaning of existing (actually used)
constructs.
That would be particularly useless, to use your own words. :-)
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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