David Mertz wrote:
I guess once in a while we'll see e.g.
`Sequence[CustomThing]`, but it will be uncommon for that typing
involving `CutomThing` to be within CustomThing itself
I think that depends on what kind of software you're
writing. Anything involving any kind of trees or graphs
will h
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:54 AM Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> > The straight-forward and simple way of writing a recursive spam()
> > function surprises beginners, but they might go years or their entire
> > career without running into a sit
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:06 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:21:18PM +, אלעזר wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:43 PM Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 05:19:12PM +, אלעזר wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Annotations of function pa
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:24 AM Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 23 September 2016 at 13:06, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:21:18PM +, אלעזר wrote:
> >> "Expression" is something that you need its value right
> >> now, and "annotation" is something that, well, annotates the
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:17:15AM +, אלעזר wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:06 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:21:18PM +, אלעזר wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:43 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 05:19:12PM +, אלעזר wrote:
> >
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:11 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:17:15AM +, אלעזר wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:06 AM Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:21:18PM +, אלעזר wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:43 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:58 PM, אלעזר wrote:
> What other context you see where the result of an expression is not intended
> to be used at all? Well there's Expression statements, which are evaluated
> for side effect. There's docstrings, which are a kind of annotations. What
> else? The only o
On 23 September 2016 at 20:31, אלעזר wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:24 AM Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> It's not a substitute for something like click or argparse when it
>> comes to more complex argument parsing, but it's a good example of the
>> kind of simple pseudo-DSL folks have long been able
On 24 September 2016 at 01:58, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Default arguments trip some people up because they expect them to be
> evaluated when the function's called, but it can easily be explained.
> Function annotations are exactly the same. Making them magically
> late-evaluate would have conseque
