> The most insane python feature is that for loops keep their intermediate variable.
"Insane feature" is a generous way of describing this behavior. I would say it is just a stupid bug that has managed to persist. Probably it is impossible to fix now because of https://xkcd.com/1172/
How typecheckers and linters should deal with this is a tricky question. There is how the language ought to work, and then there is how the language actually does in fact work, and unfortunately they are not the same.
"Insane feature" is a generous way of describing this behavior. I would say it is just a stupid bug that has managed to persist. Probably it is impossible to fix now because of https://xkcd.com/1172/
How typecheckers and linters should deal with this is a tricky question. There is how the language ought to work, and then there is how the language actually does in fact work, and unfortunately they are not the same.