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On 8/14/06, Collin Winter <collinw@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/14/06, Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> wrote:
> There are three issues: first, we need to RESERVE the types for
> standardization by Guido and crew.

You're just pushing the decision off to someone else. Regardless of

who makes it, decisions involving the built-in types are going to make
some group unhappy.

Yes, I know. I spent about a month of my life going through the same process back around 2003.

> Second, we can decide to do the standardization at any point.

Um, "at any point"? You mean it's conceivable that this

standardisation could come *after* Python ships with function
annotations?

Sure. Why not?

All I'm saying is that the "function annotations" PEP should not depend on the "function annotations for static type declarations" PEP. That was implicit in your original pre-PEP!

If the "static type declarations PEP" misses the Python 3000 deadline then the function annotations feature is still valuable. The former could be used as a testbed for the latter:

def myfunc( NumTuples: [typepackage1(tuple(Number)),

typepackage2("tuple(Number+))"]):...

Paul Prescod