[Python-Dev] PEP 563: Postponed Evaluation of Annotations

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 21:11:53 EST 2017


On 10 November 2017 at 05:51, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> If we have to change the name I'd vote for string_annotations -- "lazy" has
> too many other connotations (e.g. it might cause people to think it's the
> thunks). I find str_annotations too abbreviated, and stringify_annotations
> is too hard to spell.

Aye, I'd be fine with "from __future__ import string_annotations" -
that's even more explicitly self-documenting than either of my
suggestions.

Cheers,
Nick.

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