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

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/9/2017 9:11 PM, Nick Coghlan 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.

I think this is the best proposed so far.


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Terry Jan Reedy