[Python-ideas] Annotations (and static typing)

[Paul Moore]

On 20 August 2014 17:04, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I expect that we'll find a way for type and other annotations to coexist,
> but I want to correct what I am quoted as having said. I didn't just say
> there was little use; I also said that my original intent was to have type
> annotations (see the 2004-2005 Artima blog posts referenced in the threads)
> and accepted PEP 3107 in the expectation that it would enable 3rd party
> experiments to determine the right syntax for type annotations. IMO mypy
> fits right into that category. (Admittedly I had a long discussion with the
> author at PyCon 2013 where I convinced him to change his syntax. :-)

Sorry, yeah. I glossed over the point about having type annotations
and converging on the right syntax - as I said, I'm interested in
that, but not so much in the short term.

Paul