Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint
Pascal Costanza
costanza at web.de
Thu Oct 23 09:50:36 EDT 2003
Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Pascal Costanza wrote:
>
>> See the example of downcasts in Java.
>
>
> Please do /not/ draw your examples from Java, C++, or Eiffel. Modern
> static type systems are far more flexible and powerful, and far less
> obtrusive than the type systems used in these languages.
This was just one obvious example in which you need a workaround to make
the type system happy. There exist others.
> A modern type system has the following characteristics:
I know what modern type systems do.
Pascal
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