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bjz_ on Dec 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Guido van Rossum: The Theory of Type Hinting for P...

It would be nigh impossible to retrofit in a backwards compatible way. :(

gaius on Dec 20, 2014 [–]

The Python community is fine with that, in major versions.

indosauros on Dec 20, 2014 | [–]

Not likely anymore: http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2014/08/python-4000.h...

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