On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 June 2017 at 00:10, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> >> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivs...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 31 May 2017 at 00:58, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> Thank you for very detailed answers! I have practically nothing to add. >>> It seems to me that most of the Kevin's questions stem from unnecessary >>> focus >>> on runtime type checking. Here are two ideas about how to fix this: >>> >>> * Add the word "static" somewhere in the PEP title. >>> >> >> So the title could become "Protocols: Static structural subtyping (duck >> typing)" -- long, but not record-setting. >> > > I am thinking about "Protocols: Structural subtyping (static duck > typing)". The reason is that subtyping is already a mostly static concept > (in contrast to subclassing), > while duck typing is typically associated with the runtime behaviour. > > This might seem minor, but this version of the title sounds much more > naturally to me. > +1 -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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