Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Fergus Henderson]

Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> writes:

>You can't have metacircularity in a statically type language.

Could you explain exactly what you mean by "metacircularity"?

Anyway, I'm skeptical of this claim.  At very least, it should be possible
to have a language which is mostly statically typed (i.e. statically
typed by default), even if on some occaisions you have to fall back to
dynamic typing. 

Whether or not any existing statically typed language implementations
support this sort of thing is another question...

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