Is Python type safe?

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Neither C++ nor Python will let you add the integer 3 to the string 
> "four",

Actually, C++ (and C) will:

cosc353% cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
main() {
   const char *s = "four" + 3;
   printf("%s\n", s);
}
cosc353% g++ foo.c -o foo
cosc353% foo
r

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