Adding optional 'explicit' declaration?

[Alex Martelli]

"Remco Gerlich" <scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl> wrote in message
news:slrn9eg5uc.34r.scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl...
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> Does anyone have any numbers on this? People make this claim all the time,
> but in practice my typos are always caught at compile time or immediate
> testing already. I believe bugs like this are really rare.

I think the recent reports of PyChecker runs on the Python libraries
do offer one data point on that, but I don't recall the numbers.


> And similar to Alex's excellent rant, I hope people aren't trying to make
> Python the one language to use for everything...

Amen (& thanks for the 'excellent'!-).


Alex