optional static typing for Python

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Russ P. a écrit :
> On Jan 28, 1:51 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
> 42.desthuilli... at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> wrote:
>> Russ P. a écrit :> A while back I came across a tentative proposal from way back in 2000
>>> for optional static typing in Python:
>> (snip)
>>
>>> In any case, optional static typing in Python would help tremendously
>>> here. The hardest part of automated conversion of Python to a
>>> statically typed language is the problem of type inference. If the
>>> types are explicitly declared, that problem obviously goes away.
>> (snip)
>>
>>> Note also that, while "static" type checking would be ideal,
>>> "explicit" typing would be a major step in the right direction
>> Lord have mercy(tm).
> 
> What is that supposed to mean?

That I definitively don't agree with you on this point and would prefer 
that statically-typed languages proponants (and specially those advocate 
declarative typing) leave Python alone.

> Oh, I almost forgot. I'm supposed to sit here and be polite while
> clueless dolts make wise cracks. Sorry, but I haven't yet mastered
> that level of self-control.
> 
> I would just like to thank you for reminding me about what losers hang
> out perpetually on sites like this one, thinking they are in some kind
> of real "community." Being reminded of that will help prevent me from
> becoming such a loser myself. No, I didn't say that all the "regulars"
> here are losers, but you most certainly are.
> 
> Do you have a job? 

Yes.

> How about a life? 

Idem.

> Have you ever been "with" a
> woman? 

I'm married and have kids, and we're pretty happy, thanks.

> How in the world is it that every time I come to this site, I
> see your sorry ass hanging around yet again? I can't even imagine how
> "pointless" your life must be if you have that much time to spend
> "hanging around" on comp.lang.python -- and being an a--hole to boot.
> 
> Yeah, Lord have mercy -- on losers like you.
> 
> And thanks for reminding me to quit wasting so much time here. I've
> been doing way too much of that lately.

How does it come that you having nothing better to do than insulting 
peoples that happen to disagree with you ?