What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?

[Pascal Costanza]

alex goldman wrote:
> John McGrath wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately, there is no
>>consensus as to what the term means.
> 
> If the language allows the programmer to write programs from the 'slack'
> domain, by saying "just trust me on this", then it's not strongly typed.
> 
> What other meanings are there? I wasn't aware of the lack of consensus.

There is a difference between getting a core dump when you invoke 
undefined behavior on some object, or just getting an exception. You can 
programmatically react to an exception to do something meaningful but 
not to a core dump. Some people use the term weak typing to refer to 
languages that potentially core dump whereas they use the term strong 
typing for languages that don't.


Pascal

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