Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[Mark Wooding]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:

> Annotations *have* made it into 3.0, so it's possible that the might
> become usable. Remember, they'll always be optional, so those who don't
> want to use them won't lose anything at all.

There's a problem here.  An interface has two sides.  Access control
annotations, as far as I've seen so far, look like they're only optional
on one side: that is, once specified on the implementation side, they
have a mandatory effect on the user side.

-- [mdw]