Perl is worse!

[Martijn Faassen]

Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> wrote:
[snip]
> I think you misunderstood large chunks of this thread.  Python *does*
> have strict typing, but it is strict typing of objects, not of
> variables.  That is, variables can point to an instance of *any* type of
> object, but the objects that variables point to are *strongly* typed --
> the operations that can then be performed on that variable's object are
> highly restricted by its type (and/or interface if you want to get
> nit-picky).

The latter part is not nit-picky. The fact that interfaces are implicit
in Python and that these are checked and not the types (classes) really
is a step away from types. Definitely not strongly typed, I'd say!

Regards,

Martijn
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