Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Matthias Blume]

Ed Avis <ed at membled.com> writes:

> Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> writes:
> 
> >>Should we then conclude that compile-time syntax checking is not
> >>worth having?
> >
> >No. Syntax errors make the program fail, regardless whether this is
> >checked at compile-time or at runtime.
> >
> >A type "error" detected at compile-time doesn't imply that the
> >program will fail.
> 
> Actually it does, in a statically typed language.

Nitpick: Neither syntactic nor statically checked type errors make
programs fail. Instead, their presence simply implies the absence of a
program.  No program, no program failing...

Matthias