Is duck-typing misnamed?
Ned Batchelder
ned at nedbatchelder.com
Sat Aug 27 06:35:15 EDT 2016
On Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 5:50:30 AM UTC-4, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote:
> "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,... "
>
> so there is indeed precedence for this so-called 'duck typing'
>
>
> but wouldn't it be more Pythonic to call this 'witch typing'?
>
> "How do you know she is a witch?"
>
> "She looks like one."
>
> etc.
>
>
> I do grant that ultimately, the duck does come into play, since the witch
> weighs the same as a duck.
+1 :)
--Ned.
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