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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Lukasz Langa <lukasz at langa.pl> wrote:

> Alright, we're on bikeshed territory now. Finally! :-)
>
> I was always thinking about this as "static annotations". The fact they're
> strings at runtime is irrelevant for most people who will use this future.
> They don't want string annotations, they want them to not be evaluated on
> import time... they want them to be static. Also, "static typing" et al. I
> think it has a nice vibe to it.
>
> I admit "annotations" is too broad but "static_annotations" (or
> "string_annotations" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) will be the longest __future__ name so
> far. That was my main motivation behind using the shorter name. And a bit
> of megalomania I guess.
>

I don't mind the long name. Of all the options so far I really only like
'string_annotations' so let's go with that.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20171110/5ab6e79b/attachment.html>