weak versus dynamic, definitional origins

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri May 16 13:44:29 EDT 2003


"Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz" <gradha at titanium.sabren.com> wrote in
message news:mailman.1053101133.18078.python-list at python.org...
> Whith this scenario there is no strong or weak typing, because
> there is no typing at all. The variable name doesn't have type,
> it can be pointing now at a string object and a few cycles later
> at an integer object. How could be that strong typing?

In languages like C, types apply to names/variables that represent
fixed chunks of memory.  In Python, names are untyped, but objects
most definitely are.

TJR






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