Is this a good idea or a waste of time?

[Simon Forman]

Antoon Pardon wrote:
> On 2006-08-28, sjdevnull at yahoo.com <sjdevnull at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Antoon Pardon wrote:
> >> There seem to be enough problems that work with ints but not with
> >> floats. In such a case enforcing that the number you work with
> >> is indeed an int seems fully appropiate.
> >
> > I've _never_ seen a case where enforcing types in the manner of the OP
> > is appropriate.
> >
> > It fails with trivial wrappers like
> >
> > class myInt(int):
> >     def printFormatted(self):
> >         ..........
> >
> > Even looser checking with isinstance is rarely right.  You may want to
> > exclude floats, but that doesn't mean you want to exclude int-like
> > objects that don't inherit from int.
>
> That may be true. But one may wonder if this is a failing of the
> programmer or a failing of the language that doesn't support
> such things.

What the hell are you talking about?

I'm curious: what is the meaning, to you, of the word "this" in your
sentence above?

> 
> -- 
> Antoon Pardon