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Fri Jun 2 18:10:06 EDT 2017 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-June/148213.html

On 1 June 2017 at 00:10, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

>
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 31 May 2017 at 00:58, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Thank you for very detailed answers! I have practically nothing to add.
>> It seems to me that most of the Kevin's questions stem from unnecessary
>> focus
>> on runtime type checking. Here are two ideas about how to fix this:
>>
>> * Add the word "static" somewhere in the PEP title.
>>
>
> So the title could become "Protocols: Static structural subtyping (duck
> typing)" -- long, but not record-setting.
>

I am thinking about "Protocols: Structural subtyping (static duck typing)".
The reason is that subtyping is already a mostly static concept (in
contrast to subclassing),
while duck typing is typically associated with the runtime behaviour.

This might seem minor, but this version of the title sounds much more
naturally to me.

--
Ivan
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