[Python-ideas] Trial balloon: adding variable type declarations in support of PEP 484

[Guido van Rossum]

For pragmatic reasons I propose not to evaluate locally scoped type
annotations at all. Basically these would slow you down too much otherwise.

--Guido (mobile)

On Aug 3, 2016 11:38 PM, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Concerning type annotations on local variables of a function:
>
> 1) Would they be stored anywhere? If so, where?
>
> 2) Would they be evaluated once, or every time the
> function is called?
>
> 3) If they're evaluated once, when and in what scope?
>
> --
> Greg
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