On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:35 AM Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> wrote:

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Your proposal is one of several suggesting that type annotations are special enough to break the rules. I don't like this idea. But you'll be pleased to know there are a lot of folks in the "suppress the NameError" faction, including Guido (IIUC).

Yes, I still want this part of your PEP changed. I find your characterization of my position misleading -- there is no rule to break here(*), just an API.

(*) The Zen of Python does not have rules.

--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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