Static Typing in Python

[Premshree Pillai]

 --- Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote: >
Premshree Pillai wrote:
> >  --- Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch>
> > wrote: > 
> > 
> >>On 13 Mar 2004, at 08:07, Premshree Pillai wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Yes, I am aware that Python is dynamically typed,
> >>
> >>and
> >>
> >>>so is Perl, right? In Perl, we have the "use
> >>
> >>strict
> >>
> >>>vars" pragma to force variable declaration.
> >>
> >>I'm no Perler ... but by reading a bit of
> >>documentation, I get the 
> >>impression that you are a bit confused about what
> >>"use strict 'vars'" 
> >>really does. It seems to be some mish-mash of
> >>concepts: it imposes the 
> >>necessity to fully qualify names, to declare (the
> >>existence, not the 
> >>type of) variables with "our", and does some
> control
> >>of scoping rules.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Err...you probably have the wrong idea of static
> > typing, I think. Static typing has to do with
> explicit
> > declaration (initialization) of variables (and not
> of
> > variable types).
> 
> I beg your pardon ? Why do you thinks it is called
> 'static *typing*'?
> Static typing has to do with compile-time *type*
> checking, not with 
> variables declaration. Believe it or no, there are
> statically (and 
> strongly) typed languages that does not enforce
> variable declaration nor 
> even type declaration - this is called type
> inference, and you can have 
> an exemple in OCaml.
> 
> 
> > Like in C, C++, etc, Python too is
> > strongly typed, 
> 
> C is certainly not what I'd call a 'strongly' typed
> langage, since you 
> can cast *any* variable to *any* type without the
> compiler complaining. 
> If you want *strong* static typing, go for Ada.

In an earlier post, when I mentioned that C/C++ are
stongly typed, I had explicitly mentioned - not
cosidering casting.

-Premshree Pillai

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-Premshree
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