On 2021-12-13 17:07, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> As an aside, seeing what the docs say about Annotated makes me think
>that "Annotated" is a very bad name for this thing. It confuses the
>idea of a type annotation (i.e., attached to a variable) with this
>type-incorporating-a-label, where neither the label nor the type is
>actually an annotation in the type-annotation sense (because they have
>not been attached to a variable to annotate it).
Right!
>It seems it would have
>been better to called Annotated "Tagged" or "Labeled" or some such thing
>to make it clear that when you using it you are defining a new
>special-purpose type for use in later annotations./
Then let's revisit this issue after we have fixed this problem by
renaming typing.Annotated to something else (or creating a new name and
deprecating the old name but keeping it for backward compatibility).
--
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path, and leave a trail."
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