• bjornsno@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    That’s way harder to ask for. A docstring solution is fine so long as the linters know to pick it up.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think so. A half-measure using docstrings would likely take more processing power and require an ad-hoc implementation because comments are not broken down into ast components afaik. It would also be more costly in the long run if they decide to convert it into a proper syntax, as a result of docstrings not having a single standard way of being written.

      Python has introduced several syntactic changes for type annotations, this is not unreasonable.