Baptiste Carvello wrote: > Le 14/04/2021 à 19:44, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> > No, what I heard is that, since in *most* cases the string quotes are > > not needed, people are surprised and annoyed when they encounter cases > > where they are needed. > Well, I had assumed quotes would be used in all cases for consistency. That does seem like a reasonable solution. Redundant, ugly, and annoying, but safe and consistent. Sort of like using type constraints in the first place. :D > > ... the rule for finding the end of > > an annotation would be very simple -- just skip words until the next > > comma, close paren or colon, skipping matching brackets etc. > ... But the hypothetic "def foo(prec: > --precision int):" is already less readable. Will finding the closing > comma or colon always be obvious to the human reader? Nope. "--" sometimes means "ignore the rest of the line, including the ")". At the moment, I can't remember where I've seen this outside of SQL, but I can guarantee that if I read it late enough at night, the *best* case would be that I notice the ambiguity, guess correctly and am only annoyed. -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MV3HQASUSAEKC332UFUDWQNONLCXZDRZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/