[Python-3000] Draft pre-PEP: function annotations

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 10 04:49:55 CEST 2006


Collin Winter wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>>Collin Winter wrote:
>>
>>>   The difficulty inherent in writing annotation interpreting
>>>   libraries will keep their number low and their authorship in the
>>>   hands of people who, frankly, know what they're doing.
>>
>>I find this assumption extremely dubious.
> 
> Why? This is something Guido and I have discussed and agreed on.

It smells like something akin to security by
obscurity to me.

--
Greg


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