[Python-ideas] Trial balloon: adding variable type declarations in support of PEP 484

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 03.08.2016 03:15, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:14 PM Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org 
> <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
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>     What makes you respond so vehemently to `a: float`?
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> First reaction.  It doesn't actually seem too bad now. It is already 
> legal to just say `a` as a statement so this isn't much different.
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> def f():
>   a
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> is already legal.  So `a: List[float]` would at least be meaningful 
> rather than a meaningless statement that any linter should question. :)
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That's legal? To me that seems like a syntax/name error.
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