No documentation for the available memory types to Declare

Searching the docs shows there’s no listing of what the possible memory types are (other than ‘BIT’) when doing Program.declare(..., ..., memory_type='???')

[amyfbrown]

@notmgsk,

I would’ve expected the memory types to be listed in the python docstring…

I agree especially considering there are so few options that we could list them on a single line.

I don’t think pyquil does any checking on what memory_type is and so doesn’t really need to have any notion of what the memory types are

On that note, we should add type annotations for memory_type or otherwise change the documentation in the “Details of Updates to Quil” section to read

• memory_type: one of 'REAL', 'BIT', 'OCTET', or 'INTEGER'

to emphasize that these memory_type options have to be strings or else you get a traceback:

    ro = program.declare(name='ro', memory_type=BIT, memory_size=len(qubits))
NameError: name 'BIT' is not defined

[mpharrigan]

docs, docstrings, input validation, … all good and necessary things!