Dreaming of new generation IDE

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Yes, it certainly does.  Not that you'll get many Pythonistas to confess
> to that fact.  Somehow those who brag about the readability and
> expressiveness of source code just cannot admit that:
>
> class.method(sting name, int count) 
>
> - is *obviously* more expressive than -
>
> class.method(name, count)
>
>   
class.method(string name, int count):
"""Return the cap'tain's age.

    name: a string giving the name of the cap'tain daughter
    count: an int giving the number of fingers left in the cap'tain 
right hand
"""

In python, attributes/parameters have no type (but you know that). By 
specifying them in the method signature, you're just duplicating the 
information hold in the docstring.

JM