On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 9:39 AM Baptiste Carvello <
devel2...@baptiste-carvello.net> wrote:
> Le 13/04/2021 à 04:24, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> > I've been thinking about this a bit, and I think that the way forward is
> > for Python to ignore the text of annotations ("relaxed annotation
> > syntax"), not to try and make it available as an expression.
>
> Then, what's wrong with quoting? It's just 2 characters, and prevent the
> user (or their IDE) from trying to parse them as Python syntax.
>
Informal user research has shown high resistance to quoting.
> As a comparison: docstrings do get quoting, even though they also have
> special semantics in the language.
>
Not the same thing. Docstrings use English, which has no formal (enough)
syntax. The idea for annotations is that they *do* have a formal syntax, it
just evolves separately from that of Python itself.
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