On 8/16/06, Paul Prescod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, you're the boss. The conversation did go pretty far afield but the > main thing I wanted was just that if a user wanted to have annotations from > framework 1 and framework 2 they could reliably express that as > > def foo(a: [Anno1, Anno2]): > > All that that requires is a statement in the spec saying: "If you're > processing annotations and you see an annotation you don't understand, skip > it. And if you see a list, look inside it rather than processing it in some > proprietary fashion."
So, time for an embarrassing confession: I had a bit of a eureka moment this morning, and I think I finally understand where you were coming from with this idea. I honestly don't know what I thought you were proposing, but now that I get it, my old conception seems like rubbish. Consider the dict-based proposal withdrawn. Apologies for my part in dragging this discussion into a triple-digit comment count : ) Collin Winter _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
