Python is DOOMED! Again!

Thu Jan 22 03:40:47 EST 2015

On 22/01/2015 08:24, Rick Johnson wrote:
>> Yes, YES, *YES*!!!! That would be my first choice, or
> docstrings as a secondary. But to introduce new syntax
> into the method signatures is SUICIDE! What the hell is
> this man thinking?

I take it you mean these men Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>, 
Jukka Lehtosalo <jukka.lehtosalo at iki.fi>, Łukasz Langa <lukasz at 
langa.pl> as they are the authors of PEP484?
>> Agreed. I'm not against the idea, heck, i want to see Python
> improve just like anybody who loves this language, but the
> implementation just plain sucks! Please convince GvR to move
> this noisy syntax OUTSIDE of the signature! It's too noisy
> and its going to turn people off.
>
What implementation? The PEP is quite clearly marked as draft. The 
Re-enactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbour is currently ongoing over on 
python-ideas regarding exactly what should be implemented. There is 
also nothing to stop you writing another PEP with an alternative 
proposal, although I suspect there is as much chance of that ever 
happening as there is of ever seeing RickedPython(3).
-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence