terms of simplification would be not creating `fun` as a keyword and allowing developers to create functions in Python without a keyword (like in C-family). That way, a new proposal would be changing:
>>>> x(method: fun[int, dict] -> None) -> None:
one trick is that x(some, stuff) is currently a valid expression.
One real difference between C and Python is that C has "declarations", and not just of functions. Python does not, hence the keyword.
As you pointed out in your initial post -- many languages use a keyword to declare a function -- I can't see the gain from getting rid of that -- even if it were a new language, and we didn't have backward compatibility to worry about.
I haven't written a whole lot of C, but I always found the function declaration syntax kind of confusing.
-CHB
> ... pass
> ...
>>>> type(x)
> <class 'fun'>
>
> What do you think?
>
-1
It's clearer if you say upfront that you're defining a function, which
is that 'def' does.
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