Typed Python?

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Sat Jul 3 04:45:55 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Jarek" == Jarek Zgoda <jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl> writes:

    Jarek> Static typing would destroy all fun in Python. Eventually
    Jarek> we would end with ObjectPascal-like language, just running
    Jarek> in VM and not compiled.

Using a type inference system, it wouldn't. The code would "flow" like
it does now. Some corners of the code would probably benefit from
having explicit declarations to smooth up the process, but most of the
code could look exactly the way it does now.

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