If you want any kind of traction on this I recommend filing an opinionated
issue on this (explaining why the current behavior is wrong).
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 1:25 PM wrote:
> Daniel Moisset wrote:
> > I might expect that in a "case D(something=__y)" you get the mangling for
> > __y, but I'm n
Ah, to be honest, I completely forgot about deprecation for some reason :)
Yes, that would definitely be a much better idea to phase out Optional and
probably Union in the future actually. Thanks for bringing it up!
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Given that it's now presumably preferred spelling is `str | None` in
Python 3.10, why would we not seek to deprecate `Optional[str]` instead
of inventing a replacement?
On Thu, 2022-06-30 at 17:15 +, nveric...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am aware this is clarified in the Python documentation for the
I am aware this is clarified in the Python documentation for the typing module
but I and others have thought the naming of Optional is still quite confusing
by itself.
"Note that this is not the same concept as an optional argument, which is one
that has a default. An optional argument with a
