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On Sat, May 21, 2016, 4:52 PM Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> wrote:

> So I guess my question is perhaps whether Python compilers should start
> to go down the same path that C compilers did 30 years ago (by starting
> to include some linter functionality)
>

Well, there's that whole optional type hints thing. You should be asking
how to preserve Python's simplicity while adding more static analysis
features.

>