[Python-ideas] Trial balloon: adding variable type declarations in support of PEP 484

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Which is why I proposed that you can
> make it a class variable by saying `hitpoints: class int = 50`, and
> the default would be for it to be an instance variable.

What about class variables that serve as defaults
for instance variables? Would you be required to
declare it twice in that case?

-- 
Greg