On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:42 PM Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Not defining the semantics of annotations was a brave move, but > inevitably led to the situation where different use cases, all > quite reasonable, would spring into being. Now they have, the development > team has to decide a) which ones to sanction and b) which will be left out > in the cold. > Interesting, in the JavaScript (excuse me, ECMAScript) world, there's currently a proposal on the table to do just that, on steroids: https://github.com/giltayar/proposal-types-as-comments (full disclosure: some of the proposal authors are colleagues of mine). We'll have to see how they fare. > I wish them well. > > Kind regards, > Steve > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 5:24 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > I personally would love for a typing.python.org or equivalent >> subsection of docs.python.org to exist. >> >> +1 >> >> There’s a wrinkle here, however. The type specs are Python, but how they >> are used/interpreted is up to third party packages. >> >> So it’s a bit tricky to know exactly what to document where. >> >> I don’t think that’s insurmountable, but something to keep in mind. >> >> For example, while the clear specs are the first step, what the community >> really could use is a good “recommended practices for static typing” doc — >> and that’s harder to do without reference to particular tools. >> >> -CHB >> >> >> -- >> Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) >> >> Python Language Consulting >> - Teaching >> - Scientific Software Development >> - Desktop GUI and Web Development >> - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/YF5UIQIWNVIANFOCIQ2J4DJACQGJDGVM/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/NW3SRUA2H3KNZBD4CICXY5QF2YWELUV5/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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