does lack of type declarations make Python unsafe?

Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) g2h5dqi002 at sneakemail.com
Sun Jun 22 23:49:43 EDT 2003


Donn Cave wrote:
> There's a huge difference between optional type annotation
> and a system that requires you to declare the type of every
> single thing.

Now that I think about it for a few moments longer,-)
you're probably right. I only felt the need to give
types for functions, not local variables, etc...

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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