On Tue, 2022-05-31 at 21:08 +0000, kevinlu1...@gmail.com wrote: > On the theme of the addition of pip operators to indicate union, I > was wondering what people think of using the following shortcuts for > type hints.
> * type[] be a short-hand for List[type] I'm at -½ on this idea. Using list[type] isn't really problematic for me today. > * [type1, type2, type3] be a shorthand for Tuple[type1, type2, type3] I think this would problematic because today it already validly expresses a list containing the elements: type1, type2 and type3. And all it saves is 5 characters: `tuple`. > * similar ideas for dictionaries and callables with (perhaps with > javascript-like arrow notations?) I'm +1 for the idea of a more intuitive callable type hint syntax. > I just think something like this would be easier to read. For > example, a lot of functions that return tuples generally are > immediately unpacked when it's used, so I think this is a more clear > and concise way of stating that this is that it returns three > elements: an element of type1, an element of type2 and an element of > type3. In other words, the fact that it's a tuple does not matter > much.
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