syntax difference

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 9:22:57 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> First,
>
> No.
>
> You're not squirming your way out this one Chris.
>
> _You_ leveled the assertion that removing interleaved type-
> hints from the executable code would be easier than removing
> my proposed "type-hint comments".
>
> What was the quote???
>
> Oh, i remember:
>
>   "Awwww. Isn't it cute, how he thinks that comments are
>   easier to remove than other elements equally well defined
>   in the grammar?"
>
> Now. Put up, or shut up.

What was the quote before that?

> "Type-hint comments" would allow:
> (3) and those who utterly *HATE* them, to write a simply
>     little function which will strip them from any and all
>     source code they might be forced to maintain.

Put up or shut up. Write something that strips all type hint comments.

ChrisA