not safe at all

[Dennis Roark]

For amusement, run this little script which demonstrates a
near ultimate in the lack of type safety in the language.
(Perhaps there is a bit of type safety in that you can't do
this:  4 + "one") But look at what you can do in the
following script:

x = 3
x = x + 2
print "x =", x
x = "now I'm a string"
print x
x = [ 5, x ]
print "and now a list:", x

If you don't believe it, run it.  Should any language allow
x to be such a chameleon, to where it can even be a
different type on two sides of an assignment?	
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Dennis Roark
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Sioux Falls

Starting Points:  http://home.earthlink.net/~denro
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