[Python-ideas] Optional static typing -- the crossroads

[Greg Ewing]

Chris Angelico wrote:
> With variable declarations,
> there's a difference between "int r,g,b; double x,y,z;", where the
> block of integers is terminated by a semicolon ...
 > in argument lists, you don't get that,

Python's argument annotation syntax *could* have been
defined to work the Pascal way, with semicolons
separating the groups. But it wasn't, and it's too
late to change now.

 > (Imagine you misspell a type
> name. It's no longer a keyword. How will your mistake be reported?)

I don't understand that. Type names are always clearly
separated from keywords in either style (they come after
a colon), so there's no danger of confusing them.

-- 
Greg