On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: >> Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: >>> * The DSL currently makes no provision for specifying per-parameter >>> type annotations. This is something explicitly supported in Python; >>> it should be supported for builtins too, once we have reflection support. >>> >>> It seems to me that the syntax for parameter lines--dictated by >>> Guido--suggests conversion functions are themselves type annotations. >>> This makes intuitive sense. >> >> Really, did you read PEP 437? It's all in there. > > This attitude is unhelpful. Please stop being outright hostile. If you > want to have any influence on the outcome at all, consider looking > into compromises.
While I actually agree with Stefan that it's important to eventually have a converter DSL, I don't think it's necessary to have it in the initial implementation. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
