Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Joachim Durchholz]

Matthew Danish wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:57:00PM +0100, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> 
>>(you can always put a Lisp-style type system on top of a
>>statically-typed language, with little effort). 
> 
> This is not true, as I've pointed out on several occasions.  Such
> systems do not behave like a Lisp-style type system when dealing with
> redefinition.

Add a State monad and they will do even that.

(I thought we were talking about differences between compile-time and 
run-time typing, not about specifics of Lisp.)

Regards,
Jo