On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 12:28:47 PM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Evidence in completely the opposite direction if I'm > reading this correctly [snip link] > > "The main use case of type hinting is static analysis > using an external tool without executing the analyzed > program. Existing tools used for that purpose like > pyflakes [pyflakes] or pylint [pylint] might be extended > to support type checking. New tools, like mypy's mypy -S > mode, can be adopted specifically for this purpose.
So if the purpose is "static analysis", what is the justification for injecting new syntax into function sigs? I'm not *TOTALLY* against the idea of "type hints", but i am *TOTALLY* against their proposed location. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
