dynamic typing question
Robin Munn
rmunn at pobox.com
Fri Dec 26 14:49:24 EST 2003
Jason Tesser <JTesser at nbbc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
><snip>
>
>> Along with everything others have already written--that
>> you want to focus on test-driven development, that Python
>> is a proven success in Serious Applications, and so on--
>> your description raises a few concerns in my mind:
>> 1. Why, in your mind or your teammate's,
>> is dynamic typing a "lack"? What, pre-
>> cisely, is the benefit of static typing?
>> There are a number of legitimate
>> answers. It occurs to me that, without
>> precision on which interest you, we
>> might be missing an opportunity to
>> clarify "The Python Way" significantly.
>
> The typing errors that would not be found until runtime.
I've found pychecker to be very useful in catching those:
http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/
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Robin Munn
rmunn at pobox.com
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