<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu Jan 22 2015 at 12:17:37 Chris Angelico <<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com">rosuav@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The absence of a decorator that uses the annotations some other way<br>
should make it clear that they're type hints, just as the absence of a<br>
"global" statement should make it clear that assigned names are local<br>
to a function.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What about code that already exists? What about modules that want to support Python installations that already exist (hence don't have the `typing` module)? What about module authors who simply don't want to make their code ugly with a no-op decorator just to signify that they're not making it ugly with type annotations?</div><div><br></div><div>Ed Kellett</div></div>