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

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

"Collin Winter" <collinw at gmail.com> writes:

> I was explaining function annotations to a friend this past weekend
> and found that, even though I had written the PEP and spent months
> debating the little details of how annotations were to work, I was
> hard-pressed to answer the question of "why are we doing this?"

It's a limited way to extend the syntax, without actually admitting
to do that :-)

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