[Python-Dev] Revive the types sig?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> writes:

    GvR> Barry, you were supposed to throw a brick at me with this
    GvR> content at the meeting, on Eric's behalf.  Why didn't you?  I
    GvR> was waiting for someone to explain why this was a big idea,
    GvR> but everybody kept their face shut!  :-(

I actually thought I had, but maybe it was a brick made of bouncy spam
instead of concrete. :/

    GvR> I'm not sure this is viable.  I believe Jeremy's compiler
    GvR> package actually doesn't have its own parser -- it uses the
    GvR> parser module (which invokes Python's standard parse) and
    GvR> then transmogrifies the parse tree into something more
    GvR> usable, but it doesn't change the syntax!  Quixote can get
    GvR> away with this because their only change is giving a
    GvR> different meaning to stand-alone string literals.  But for
    GvR> type annotations this doesn't give enough freedom, I expect.

I thought PTL definitely included a "template" declaration keyword, a
la, def, so they must have some solution here.  MEMs guys?

-Barry