On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Jim Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 06/18/2018 07:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> As a human programmer, you surely perform your own ad hoc type checking
>> when you write and debug code.
>
> Of course. And, I use linting tools and other forms of static type
> checking. What I don't like is adding the *syntax* for static type checking
> to the (dynamically typed) language proper, particularly when the
> implementations of said language do nothing but ignore it.
So you have annotations for type information. Tell me: why should
these annotations be introduced with a hash and ended with a newline?
What is it about type annotations that requires that they be delimited
in this way?
What about assertions? Are they comments too? Should we have, for instance:
if x > 0:
...
elif x < 0:
...
else:
#assert: x == 0
...
or is it better to use an 'assert' statement? After all, they can
legitimately be ignored by the interpreter.
ChrisA
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