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Always follow 3-2-1 backup rule (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

that's still a docstring, idk of linters that take docstrings into account at all. We need a semantic approach for this kind of annotation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.