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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Nov 9 22:30:51 EST 2017


So... Łukasz?

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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