15 Aug
2002
15 Aug
'02
6:20 a.m.
In a dynamically typed language there is no such thing as an 'integer variable' but it can be simulated by a reference that may only point to objects in the 'integer' category.
This seems a game with words. I don't see the difference between an integer variable and a reference that must point to an integer. (Well, I see a difference, in the sharing semantics, but that's just the difference between a value and an pointer in C. They're both variables.) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)