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

Paul Sokolovsky pmiscml at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 20:58:20 CEST 2015

Hello,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:17:01 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

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.

Sure, and I didn't mean you personally - your original message conveyed that it was "gut feeling" very well. More like following to your message, where people gave "+1". To a gut feeling? To the thought of stopping contribution? I dunno, and that "blackmail" note wasn't intended to be more serious than "burn the witch" and other funny stylistic devices which already appeared and make the discussion a bit more lively ;-).

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.)

It does, and hope people won't be caught in "static typechecking" loop and consider other usages too.

--David

-- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com

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