On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:46:13 -0800, Eelco wrote: > With all this being said, I must say that the notion of indtroducing > type constraints into Python is quite a radical one*,
Not that radical. Here's the creator of Python musing about adding optional type checks to Python: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=85551 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=86641 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=87182 [...] > *even though the asteriks syntax is infact a limited form of exactly > that It absolutely is not. def f(*args, **kwargs) constructs a tuple and a dict, it does not type-check that the function is passed a tuple and a dict as arguments. These are completely different things. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
