[Python-3000] duck typing

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 7 03:37:52 CEST 2006


Bill Janssen wrote:

> Thanks, Antoine, but I don't want strong static typing at all.  I
> wouldn't mind optional partial static typing, but what I want is
> strong *dynamic* typing

How strong do you want it, exactly?

The disadvantages associated with very strong type systems
arise because of their strength, not whether they are
static or dynamic. A language with the same type system
as Java, but enforced at run time instead of compile
time, would be just as annoying to use.

--
Greg


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