typechecks: just say no! (was Re: Determining Types)

[Emile van Sebille]

Couldn't you always coerce it?

str('hello')
str(123)


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"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
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> One place that I've actually found typechecking useful is at the boundary
of
> my XML-RPC server.  If I'm expecting a string input (say, the name of a
> band) and someone on the other side inputs "311" to a Perl-based website
> which then passes the query to my server, I get an integer that I have to
> coerce back to a string.  In my comments I call it a "Perl guard". ;-)
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