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Message316648

Author	gvanrossum
Recipients	adelfino, cheryl.sabella, docs@python, gvanrossum, levkivskyi, lukasz.langa, matrixise, r.david.murray
Date	2018-05-15.12:20:58
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I actually intended to say that annotations continue to be usable for non-typing purposes (beyond ClassVar/InitVar). It may be deprecated but the usage still exists. This is a glossary, not a manifesto. I'm fine with adding that the main use of annotations is for type hints of course. And I was mostly reacting to the fact that the text that was just committed seemed to imply that 'annotation' refers to something stored at runtime in __annotations__ while 'type hint' was a syntactic form (and this is borne out by the omission of local type hints from the section on annotations).

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I actually intended to say that annotations continue to be usable for
non-typing purposes (beyond ClassVar/InitVar). It may be deprecated but the
usage still exists. This is a glossary, not a manifesto.

I'm fine with adding that the main use of annotations is for type hints of
course. And I was mostly reacting to the fact that the text that was just
committed seemed to imply that 'annotation' refers to something stored at
runtime in __annotations__ while 'type hint' was a syntactic form (and this
is borne out by the omission of *local* type hints from the section on
annotations).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-05-15 12:20:58	gvanrossum	set	recipients: + gvanrossum, r.david.murray, docs@python, lukasz.langa, matrixise, levkivskyi, cheryl.sabella, adelfino
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2018-05-15 12:20:58	gvanrossum	create