On 4/20/2015 9:07 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
Jack is not complaining only about *writing* code. He's complaining about the effect this will have on code that we all are expected to *read*.
For reading, good function and parameter names and a good summary as the first line of the docstring are probably more useful *to humans* than formal type annotations.
Ahh. Yes, that's a concern. When you go digging into that library to find out how it works, yes, you'd be face-to-face with their type annotations.
Maybe it'd be of value to have a quick "code stripper" that takes away all the annotations,
I was already thinking about that for Idle. The file should then be either semi read-only or renamed. Also options to merge annotations in from stub files for editing and to split back out when writing.
plus any other junk/framing that you're not interested in, and gives you something you can browse in a text editor? It could take away all the Sphinx adornments from docstrings, any source control versioning markers, all that kind of thing.
Interesting idea. -- Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
