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

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:08 PM 1/2/2007 -0600, Collin Winter wrote:
>I could say You Aren't Going to Need It, but that gets the tense
>wrong; we're getting along without annotations quite nicely here in
>the present. In short: I'd like to request that PEP 3107 be rejected
>as an overly-specific, unnecessary addition to the language.

You left off overloading and argument adaptation as use cases.  These are 
considerably more readable when specified in-line, just like decorators are 
more readable placed above the function than after it.

As with decorators, these uses happen today, but are more awkward without 
the syntax.