does lack of type declarations make Python unsafe?

[Anton Vredegoor]

kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu (Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes) wrote:

>> And in neither C++ nor Java can you express "c is a container", either
>> directly or indirectly, except in comments
>
>  That is incorrect for Java, and for most C++ class libraries.
>
>    List c = new ArrayList();
>    c.add("foo");
>    c.add("bar");
>    System.out.println( c instanceof Collection );
>    System.out.println( c.size() );
>    for(Iterator it = c.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
>        System.out.println( it.next() );
>    }

As some googling seems to indicate this is an extendable list of
references. Since int doesn't derive from object, this will probably
fail:

c.add(1)

One decaffeinated Java with extra coffein please :-)

Anton

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