[Types-sig] type declaration syntax

[skaller]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, skaller wrote:
> >...
> > But the _return_ type doesn't need to be annotated as much.
> > Why? Because the inferencer can usually deduce it:
> > it's an output, the argument types are inputs.
> 
> Users of the function need the return type. The inferencer won't be
> global -- it isn't going to look at the function to determine the return
> type. 

	Viperc _will_ use a global inferencer.
Please don't assume "python" means CPython. There are two other
full scale implementations now. There may be more in the future.
And there may be other programs -- not full interpreters or
compilers, like PyLint -- which will _use_ the information.

> > [I'm not saying if this will kill ":" or lambda though  :-]
> 
> Heh. I would simply state that lambda cannot be annotated.

	OK, agreed.

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