The Industry choice

[Paul Rubin]

"Donn Cave" <donn at drizzle.com> writes:
> Yes, it would be really weird if Python went that way, and the
> sort of idle speculations we were reading recently from Guido
> sure sounded like he knows better.  But it's not like there aren't
> some interesting issues farther on downstream there, in the compare
> function.  cmp(), and str() and so forth, play a really big role in
> Python's dynamically typed polymorphism.  It seems to me they are
> kind of at odds with static type analysis

I don't understand that.  If I see "str x = str(3)", then I know that
x is a string.