[Python-3000] Draft pre-PEP: function annotations (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 03:40:43 CEST 2006

Paul Prescod wrote:

If we get past the meta-discussion, I don't really see any disagreement left. I'll grit my teeth and avoid commenting on the meta-discussion. ;)

Ah, so I'm not the only one doing that then };>

My proposed text for the PEP is as follows:

Generally +1, except for this bit:

"In Python 3000, semantics will be attached to the following types: objects of type string (or subtype of string) are to be used for documentation (though they are not necessarily the exclusive source of documentation about the type). Objects of type list (or subtype of list) are to be used for attaching multiple independent annotations."

Interpretations of string & list subtypes should be up to whoever creates those subtypes - it's only the builtins themselves that python-dev should be the authority for.

Cheers, Nick.

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