Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

[Tim Chase]

On 07/17/12 12:29, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 7/17/2012 10:23 AM, Lipska the Kat wrote:
>>
>>> Well 'type-bondage' is a strange way of thinking about compile time type
>>> checking and making code easier to read (and therefor debug
>>
>> 'type-bondage' is the requirement to restrict function inputs and output 
>> to one declared type, where the type declaration mechanisms are usually 
>> quite limited.
>>
>>  >>> def max(a, b):
>>     if a <= b: return a
>>     return b
> 
> 
> Surely you meant 'if a >= b: . . .'
> 
> No worries, I'm sure your unittests would have caught it.  ;)

Or he could have meant "min" instead of "max".

Or he could have returned the wrong values:

  def max(a, b):
    if a <= b: return b
    return a

:-)

-tkc