On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Lukasz Langa <luk...@langa.pl> wrote:
> Alright, we're on bikeshed territory now. Finally! :-) > > I was always thinking about this as "static annotations". The fact they're > strings at runtime is irrelevant for most people who will use this future. > They don't want string annotations, they want them to not be evaluated on > import time... they want them to be static. Also, "static typing" et al. I > think it has a nice vibe to it. > > I admit "annotations" is too broad but "static_annotations" (or > "string_annotations" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) will be the longest __future__ name so > far. That was my main motivation behind using the shorter name. And a bit > of megalomania I guess. > I don't mind the long name. Of all the options so far I really only like 'string_annotations' so let's go with that. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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