[Python-Dev] Python 3000 PEP: Postfix type declarations (original) (raw)

Ron Adam rrr at ronadam.com
Sun Apr 1 15:27:00 CEST 2007

Johann C. Rocholl wrote:

Brilliant!

On 4/1/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: def foo${LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE}$(x${DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL C}$): return None${ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE}$

This is still easy to read and makes the full power of type-annotated Python available to ASCII believers. +1 J

This also has the advantage that any good editor with auto correct and completion can convert from one form to the other as you type. A feature I love in my word processor because it always does exactly what I want and saves me much typing.

+1ℕ

;-)

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