[Python-3000] What's the point of annotations?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 2, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Collin Winter wrote:

> The biggest problem I faced then and now is justifying the use-cases
> for annotations. Here's what I could come up with off the top of my
> head: information for typecheckers; doc strings for parameters; extra
> information for IDEs; extra information for static analysis tools like
> pylint. These can all be addressed together:

I've been using epydoc to document my public interfaces.  It seems  
like most of those use cases are (or easily could be) supported by  
epydoc docstrings.  Certainly for documenting parameters, epydoc is  
much more readable than the example you gave.  If you can get over  
parsing a docstring, it might already be enough.

- -Barry


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