Python is DOOMED! Again!

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/22/2015 3:44 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 12:28:47 PM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> Evidence in completely the opposite direction if I'm
>> reading this correctly [snip link]
>>
>> "The main use case of type hinting is static analysis
>> using an external tool without executing the analyzed
>> program. Existing tools used for that purpose like
>> pyflakes [pyflakes] or pylint [pylint] might be extended
>> to support type checking. New tools, like mypy's mypy -S
>> mode, can be adopted specifically for this purpose.
>
> So if the purpose is "static analysis", what is the
> justification for injecting new syntax into function sigs?

The syntax was put there years ago.

> I'm not *TOTALLY* against the idea of "type hints", but i am
> *TOTALLY* against their proposed location.

Unlike other annotations, type annotations can be put in a separate stub 
file.

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Terry Jan Reedy