syntax difference

[Jim Lee]

On 06/17/2018 01:35 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 6:23 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>> Jim Lee <jlee54 at gmail.com>:
>>> IMHO, trying to shoehorn static type checking on top of a dynamically
>>> typed language shows that the wrong language was chosen for the job.
>> I'm also saddened by the type hinting initiative. When you try to be
>> best for everybody, you end up being best for nobody. The niche Python
>> has successfully occupied is huge. Why risk it all by trying to take the
>> whole cake?
> Did you complain when function annotations were introduced back in 2006?
>
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/
>
> That's TWELVE YEARS ago. Over in the Node.js world, that's ... uhh,
> actually that's longer ago than Node.js has even been around. Another
> trendy language is Go... oh wait, that wasn't around in 2006 either.
>
> Type annotations have been in Python for nearly twelve years; ten if
> you count the actual release of Python 3.0. The thing that changed
> more recently was that *non-type* annotations were deprecated, since
> very few use-cases were found. When did the shoehorning happen,
> exactly?
>
> ChrisA
What does time have to do with anything?  I wasn't using Python in 
2006.  A bad idea is a bad idea, regardless of *when* it was conceived.

-Jim


-Jim