[Python-3000] Conventions for annotation consumers

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 16 03:32:51 CEST 2006


Paul Prescod wrote:
> What if 
> two different groups start fighting over the keyword "type" or "doc" or 
> "lock"? Python already has a module system that allows you to use the 
> word "type" and me to use the word "type" without conflict

But, in general, performing this disambiguation requires
executing the module that is making the annotations. For
a processor that only wants to deal with the source, this
is undesirable.

--
Greg


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