Thanks Mark! On May 22, 2015 1:52 PM, "Mark Shannon" <m...@hotpy.org> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I am pleased to announce that I am accepting PEP 484 (Type Hints). > > Given the proximity of the beta release I thought I would get this > announcement out now, even though there are some (very) minor details to > iron out. > (If you want to know the details, it's all at > https://github.com/ambv/typehinting) > > > I hope that PEP 484 will be a benefit to all users of Python. > I think the proposed annotation semantics and accompanying module are > technically sound and I hope that they are socially acceptable to the > Python community. > > I have long been aware that as well as a powerful, sophisticated and > "production quality" language, Python is also used by many casual > programmers, and as a language to introduce children to programming. > I also realise that this PEP does not look like it will be any help to the > part-time programmer or beginner. However, I am convinced that it will > enable significant improvements to IDEs (hopefully including IDLE), static > checkers and other tools. > These tools will then help us all, beginners included. > > This PEP has been a huge amount of work, involving a lot of people. > So thank you to everyone involved. If I were to list names I would > inevitably miss someone out. You know who you are. > > Finally, if you are worried that this will make Python ugly and turn it > into some sort of inferior Java, then I share you concerns, but I would > like to remind you of another potential ugliness; operator overloading. > > C++, Perl and Haskell have operator overloading and it gets abused > something rotten to produce "concise" (a.k.a. line noise) code. > Python also has operator overloading and it is used sensibly, as it should > be. Why? > It's a cultural issue; readability matters. > > Python is your language, please use type-hints responsibly :) > > Cheers, > Mark. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >
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