Popular conceit about learning programming languages

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net>:
| "Donn Cave" <donn at drizzle.com> writes:
|> | It would seem to me that most or all of the benfits of static typing can be
|> | obtained from tools.
|> 
|> It can't.  In places where the program itself is determined by run time
|> inputs - like in the case of the module that's imported that way - your
|> tool is of no use.
|
| Of course, such tricks are flat out impossible in a static language, no?

Exactly.  Or, maybe.  Maybe it depends on what you need out of a trick.
No black magic or fakery, but I bet there's a place for the arcane arts.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu