Inefficiency of __getattr__

[jurgen.defurne at philips.com]

I think that with a good statically typed language, you can eliminate
a whole lot of run-time checks. This means less and faster code. I think
that is the most principal reason behind this, because you can debug
and test a dynamically typed language as good as a statically typed
one.

Jurgen





kragen at dnaco.net@SMTP at python.org on 04/10/2000 07:49:04
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OK, so you agree that silent coercions cause problems in some cases in
C++, some of which cases are built into the language.

So what's the advantage of static typing over dynamic typing?  Does it
help you catch bugs, and if so, which ones?
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