I'm not sure why I'm bothering to engage, but: On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:31 AM MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> terms of simplification would be not creating `fun` as a keyword and > allowing developers to create functions in Python without a keyword (like > in C-family). That way, a new proposal would be changing: > >>>> x(method: fun[int, dict] -> None) -> None: > one trick is that x(some, stuff) is currently a valid expression. One real difference between C and Python is that C has "declarations", and not just of functions. Python does not, hence the keyword. As you pointed out in your initial post -- many languages use a keyword to declare a function -- I can't see the gain from getting rid of that -- even if it were a new language, and we didn't have backward compatibility to worry about. I haven't written a whole lot of C, but I always found the function declaration syntax kind of confusing. -CHB > > ... pass > > ... > >>>> type(x) > > <class 'fun'> > > > > What do you think? > > > -1 > > It's clearer if you say upfront that you're defining a function, which > is that 'def' does. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HGJ6VR5SZYE56ZZ7OJNP6QVJUFBVJYBC/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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