[Python-3000] Function annotations considered obfuscatory (Re: Conventions for annotation consumers) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Aug 16 16:45:46 CEST 2006

On 8/16/06, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

Yes and no; I don't think it will be that uncommon to have multiple annotations, somewhat similar to "public static final int". Also note that needing to disambiguate the annotations will tend to increase their length.

God save us from public static final int.

I hope that needing more than one line per argument will be unusual, but needing more than one line for a definition may not be.

I expect the latter will be too, as it would only matter for code that somehow straddles two or more frameworks.

That is one reason I wonder whether all annotations/modifications have to actually be part of the prologue, or whether they could be applied to the Signature afterwards.

And how would that reduce the clutter? The information still has to be entered by the user, presumably with the same disambiguating tags, and some punctuation.

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