On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 2:52 PM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> Alex Hall writes: > > > In all cases it's not immediately clear what the actual default value > is, > > or even what kind of object is meant to be passed to that parameter. > > I agree with the basic principle, but I'm not sure this is a very > strong argument. First, if you want to indicate what the type of the > actual argument should be, we have annotations for that exact purpose. Yes, but many people can't be bothered to write annotations. This change would mean that I get extra type information even when using a function written by a programmer making as little effort as they can. Besides that, type annotations are often not easy to read - see the StreamHandler screenshot. An example of an acceptable value is additionally helpful.
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