Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:29:48PM +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:
1) I'm not keen with the naming of mypy's typing classes. The visual distinction between e.g. dict() and Dict() is too small and IMHO confusing for newcomers. […]
Would it be possible, and desirable, to modify the built-in types so that we could re-use them in the type annotations?
That would address my concern. With that change, when the programmer who reads the code encounters mention of a type, it means precisely the same type object as it appears to be and not some special beast. -- \ “Science embraces facts and debates opinion; religion embraces | `\ opinion and debates the facts.” —Tom Heehler, _The Well-Spoken | _o__) Thesaurus_ | Ben Finney