On 06/18/2018 11:49 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 06/18/2018 11:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
What, fundamentally, is the difference between type hints and assertions,
such that - in
your view - one gets syntax and the other is just comments?
Type hints are just that - hints. They have no syntactic meaning to the
parser, and do not affect the execution path in any way. Therefore, they are
effectively and actually comments. The way they have been implemented,
though, causes noise to be interspersed with live code and, as others have
said, are difficult to remove or ignore.
I don't know what you mean by "syntactic meaning". Do you mean that
they create no executable bytecode, that they have no run-time
influence? Because that's not entirely true; they are stored, and can
be viewed at run-time. In fact, in optimized mode, assertions produce
no bytecode whatsoever; so by that definition, they are more comment-y
than annotations are. Do you have some other definition?
ChrisA
I'm tired of running around in circles with you, so I will respectfully
decline to comment further.
-Jim
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