And here we go again. Sorry for posting unfinished stuff: On 31.05.2016 11:05, Paul Moore wrote:
If this was simply about type definitions, I'd agree. But I thought the point of Guido's post was that having seen two examples (TypeVar and Symbol) is there a more general approach that might cover these two cases as well as others? So just looking at the problem in terms of stub files isn't really the point here.
I don't know why this needs special syntax anyway. Maybe, somebody could explain. Even Guido said it was just for procrastinating. So, I don't give much weight to it. Anyway, what's the difference between: a = <something> and def a = <something> ? Both evaluate RHS and assign the result to a name (if not already defined, define the name) The only benefit I can see is some a syntax like: def a which defines a name in the scope without content. If that's useful? Maybe. Best, Sven