On Fri, 5 Mar 2021, 9:10 pm Steven D'Aprano, <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I was curious how and why return annotations use the arrow `->` symbol, > so I went spelunking into the depths of the Python-Ideas and Python-Dev > mailing lists. > > Much to my surprise, I couldn't find any discussion or debate about it. > If you haven't already, also try to track down any PEP 3107 discussions on the python-3000 mailing list. I don't actually recall any major debate over the syntax of function annotations though - the only controversy I can recall was over whether or not it was a good idea to add the syntax before we had a solid plan for the standard associated semantics. Cheers, Nick. > >
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