[Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reaction

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Apr 21 2015, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:05:59 -0700
> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 20 2015, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Maybe it'd be of value to have a quick "code stripper" that takes
>> > away all the annotations, plus any other junk/framing that you're
>> > not interested in, and gives you something you can browse in a text
>> > editor?
>> 
>> If you need to preprocess your source code to make it suitable for
>> human consumption something is very wrong with your language design.
>> I can't believe you're seriously suggesting this.
>
> I'm sure that was irony, d'oh.

That'd be a relief. It didn't sound ironic to me.

> The proposed type annotations are very readable.
[..]

I don't have an informed opinion about that yet. I was just commenting
on the general idea of stripping them away if they're not readable.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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