[Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reaction (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Apr 21 18:17:01 CEST 2015

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:27:50 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was replying to Steven's message. Did you read it?

Yes. And I try to follow general course of discussion, as its hard to follow individual sub-threads. And for example yesterday's big theme was people blackmailing that they stop contributing to stdlib if annotations are in, and today's theme appear to be people telling that static type checking won't be useful. And just your reply to Steven was a final straw which prompted me to point out that static type checking is not a crux of it, but just one (not the biggest IMHO) usage.

Please be respectful rather than inflammatory. If you read what I wrote, I did not say that I was going to stop contributing, I specifically talked about that gut reaction being both emotional and illogical. That doesn't make the reaction any less real, and the fact that such reactions exist is a data point you should consider in conducting your PR campaign for this issue. (I don't mean that last as a negative: this issue requires an honest PR campaign.)

--David

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