[Python-3000] Fwd: Conventions for annotation consumers

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/16/06, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I meant "restrict" as in having it stated that the annotations
> are for typechecking, rather than attempting to support a dozen
> different uses simultaneously. The annotations would still be
> free-form, with the semantics up to whoever's implementing the
> __typecheck__ function, and Python itself wouldn't take any steps to
> enforce what can or can't go in the annotations.

-1. Th annotations should be available for whatever the user wants to
use them for. Remember, lots of folks do *not* use shared frameworks
-- the only framework they care about is the one they write for
themselves, and they should not feel guilty about using annotations
for whatever metadata they need. To take up an old rule from the X11
world, the language should provide mechanism without policy.

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