On 20 August 2014 17:04, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
I expect that we'll find a way for type and other annotations to coexist, but I want to correct what I am quoted as having said. I didn't just say there was little use; I also said that my original intent was to have type annotations (see the 2004-2005 Artima blog posts referenced in the threads) and accepted PEP 3107 in the expectation that it would enable 3rd party experiments to determine the right syntax for type annotations. IMO mypy fits right into that category. (Admittedly I had a long discussion with the author at PyCon 2013 where I convinced him to change his syntax. :-)
Sorry, yeah. I glossed over the point about having type annotations and converging on the right syntax - as I said, I'm interested in that, but not so much in the short term. Paul