*unconcerned (sorry for the spam)
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 3:57 PM Caleb Donovick <donov...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > > Fine, so the use case you claimed was fiction. If you had just said > "DSL" instead of "anonymous protocols and dataclasses" you would have > gotten straight to the point and we would have been talking about whether > extended subscription would be useful for DSLs (I can see various use > cases), rather than arguing over whether Struct can be spelled with () > instead of [] (a total waste of time). > > Oh but the dataclasses and protocols part is not fiction, I am just > concerned with mypy being able to leverage my annotations. > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 7:27 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 7:14 PM Caleb Donovick <donov...@cs.stanford.edu> >> wrote: >> >>> > To me, the main weakness here is that you couldn't move forward with >>> this unless you also got the various static type checkers on board. But I >>> don't think those care much about this use case (an inline notation for >>> what you can already do with a class definition and annotations). And >>> without static checking this isn't going to be very popular. >>> >>> You underestimate my willingness to generate python files which could be >>> consumed by static checkers via a preprocessing step. Also, my real goal >>> is to abuse type hints for the purposes of my DSL. But DSL is a nuaghty >>> term on the list so we won't mention that :) >>> >> >> Fine, so the use case you claimed was fiction. If you had just said "DSL" >> instead of "anonymous protocols and dataclasses" you would have gotten >> straight to the point and we would have been talking about whether extended >> subscription would be useful for DSLs (I can see various use cases), rather >> than arguing over whether Struct can be spelled with () instead of [] (a >> total waste of time). >> >> In fact, I don't know why you think "DSL" is a naughty term. (I find >> "runtime use of annotations" much naughtier. :-) >> >> -- >> --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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