On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:01:58 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > [...] >> particular at DropBox, which is (I believe) funding a lot of Guido's >> time on this, because they need it. > > And now we get to the truth! > > Guido's new puppet master is the sole reason why this fine community -- > of once free-roaming *STALLIONS*-- is now corralled and saddled with > type-hints!
I know that Rick's attitude towards reality is that facts are only for other people, and that once he has made up his mind nothing will budge it, *especially* not facts, but for anyone reading this who might be fooled into imagining that Rick has a point, really, no. People have been requesting static typing in Python virtually since Day 1, and certainly since Python 1.5. Guido has been talking about it publicly since at least 2004: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=85551 a few years before DropBox was even a startup. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
