[Types-sig] Suggestions for python 2

[Guido van Rossum]

> I intend to push this proposal during IPC8.  I would greatly appreciate
> constructive comments in advance, if only to temper my enthusiasm ;^}

Eddy, it's too late in Python's life for radical proposals.  My head
hasn't exploded yet, but it sure hurts whenever I try to read your
proposal carefully.  I'm not a functional programmer, and Python is
not a functional programming language; and as far as I'm concerned it
never will be one.

Maybe you'll make the case better in person -- I'll be there to listen!

(Practical comment: the syntax <generator> <name> [<bases>]:
<suite> won't fly; you seem to want <generator> to be any expression,
and an expression followed by a name is too fragile a construct to be
comfortably parseable (even if it might be unambiguous).)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)