[Python-3000] i guess i was misunderstood
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Thu May 11 20:03:19 CEST 2006
[Guido]
> > You seem to be still under the influence of the type-safety mafia, who
> > want to make you believe that with enough type-checking you can
> > prevent all bugs (though they don't believe it themselves).
[Talin, quoetd by Guido]
> >> I think that I agree with the gist of Tomer's point.
[Guido responds]
> >Well, to most of us it's far from clear what he's trying to say...
[Tomer]
> no, i'm quite the opposite in fact. i want a type-less language. sure,
> builtin types like int/str/float need some concrete distinction, but apart
> from those, all language-level objects should be typeless.
Well, sorry, but I don't think anyone here understands what you mean
by "typeless" so I think continuing this discussion is rather
pointless. Your statement that "an object's type is its MRO" is also
meaningless and not rooted in fact. And your examples are
incomprehensible.
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