Re: Type hinting - Request for Discussion

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Dennis Haarbrink<dennis@born05.nl> wrote: > I mean, libraries may have all kinds of quirks, you may not be satisfied with the supplied API > or maybe even the entire philosophy behind it, but that shouldn't stop you from using it or is > it? You must learn what these quirks are. Likewise, every developer must learn the quirks of the "type hinting" as they will almost certainly be required to interact with code that uses it. In an extreme case, suppose that we completely balls-ed up the semantics of type checks to be really really hard to use, but people used them anyway. That would lead to a sharp learning curve. The people who are against this proposal, or any other, know they will be required to use it when it comes in, and have an interest in making sure it is clean (whatever that means in each case). We shouldn't dismiss their objections on the argument that they arent required to use it. If its in the language, they are required to learn it. Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com