[Types-sig] New syntax?

[Greg Stein]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>...
> > [ I *really* don't like member declarations in the __init__() method as
> >   some people have shown. Those could be confused with declarations of
> >   local vars, which I hope we aren't going to have. ]
> 
> Well, my syntax proposal avoids this confusion by following Python's
> lead:
> 
> varclass Foo:
>    alpha: int
> 
>    def __init__(self):
>        self.member: int
>        local: int

Quite true. This is much clearer. But I still want "decl" rather than
"varclass" :-)

> > Consider the above example, my latest proposal for syntax changes in
> > support of declarations. Obviously, a bit more detail is needed for things
> > like parameterized types, but I think the above is representative of where
> > I'd like to see things go.
> 
> Didn't you think parameterized types looked fairly straightforward in my
> syntax proposal?

Yes. I would expect something like that for a new typedecl syntax.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/