[Python-ideas] Was: Annotations (and static typing), Now:Sharing __annotations__

[Cem Karan]

On Aug 24, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Cem Karan <cfkaran2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> @doc(a, "docs about a")
>> @type(a, set(range(10)))
>> def foo(a):
>>        pass
> 
> If this is your proposal, then how do UUIDs even help? You already
> effectively piggy-back off the standard module import system for
> uniqueness. Surely that's going to do everything that UUIDs would?

I'm not sure if I follow what you're saying.  Do you mean 'if everyone is using my annotizer library, why bother with UUIDs, because each decorator will have a different meaning enforced by the import system'?

Thanks,
Cem Karan