How a smart editor could make "Postfix type declarations PEP3117" in Python3000 more readable

[Russ P.]

On Jan 4, 10:07 pm, John Nagle <na... at animats.com> wrote:
> aspineux wrote:
> > Hi
>
> > I read the PEP 3117 about the new "Postfix type declarations"  in
> > Python3000.
> > THIS PEP as been REJECTED !
>
>     Of course.  That was a joke.
>
>  > And I think this is a good idea to include typing in python.
>
>     Python doesn't really need explicit type declarations.
> They're not needed for correctness, and they're not needed for
> performance.  Take a look at Shed Skin, which is able to hard-compile Python
> using type inference without explicit type declarations.
>
>     (I'm writing as someone who's used and liked very strictly typed
> languages like Ada and Modula.  Python actually does unusually well
> without declarations.  Most languages that don't have declarations
> run into difficulties.  Consider Basic, TCL, and Matlab, to name
> three rather diverse examples.  Python managed to avoid the problems
> those languages have.)
>
>                                 John Nagle

Interesting. And how did it do that?