In principle, I like this idea, this will save some keystrokes
and will make annotated code more "beautiful". But I am quite worried about
the backwards
compatibility. One possible idea would be to use __future__ import without
a definite
deprecation plan. If people will be fine with using typing.get_type_hints
(btw this is already the preferred way instead of directly accessing
__annotations__,
according to PEP 526 at least) then we could go ahead with deprecation.
Also I really like Yury's idea of dynamic mapping, but it has one downside,
semantics of this will change:
def fun(x: print("Function defined"), y: int) -> None:
...
However I agree functions with side effects in annotations are very rare,
and it would be reasonable to sacrifice this tiny backwards compatibility
to avoid the __future__ import.
--
Ivan
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