Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Jon S. Anthony j-anthony at rcn.com
Sat Oct 25 13:20:09 EDT 2003


"Andreas Rossberg" <rossberg at ps.uni-sb.de> writes:

> It is not, because Lisp hasn't been designed with types in mind. It is
> pretty much folklore that retrofitting a type system onto an arbitrary
> language will not work properly. For example, Lisp makes no distinction
> between tuples and lists, which is crucial for type inference.

Your credibility just took a nose dive.

/Jon




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