On 1/22/2015 3:44 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
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?
The syntax was put there years ago.
I'm not *TOTALLY* against the idea of "type hints", but i am
*TOTALLY* against their proposed location.
Unlike other annotations, type annotations can be put in a separate stub
file.
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