[Python-Dev] PEP 563: Postponed Evaluation of Annotations (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Nov 10 13:13:23 EST 2017

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 11/10/2017 07:48 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I don't mind the long name. Of all the options so far I really only like 'stringannotations' so let's go with that.

As someone else mentioned, we have function annotations and variable annotations already, which makes stringannotations sound like it's annotations for strings.

We can't strive to encode the full documentation in the future's name.

Contriwise, "annotationstrings" sounds like a different type of annotation -- they are now being stored as strings, instead of something else.

Trust me, that can also be misinterpreted. Let's stop the bikeshedding.

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