Is this a good idea or a waste of time?

[Steve Holden]

Antoon Pardon wrote:
> On 2006-08-29, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> 
>>At Tuesday 29/8/2006 02:45, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>In any case, I don't see how this supports the original claim that
>>>>strict type checking input params is good practice.
>>>
>>>I'm not defending that claim. I'm just putting question marks
>>>with the claim that strict type checking input parameters is
>>>bad practice.
>>
>>I think others have shown enough examples of good things that can be 
>>done by *not* enforcing a specific type...
> 
> 
> That doesn't contradict that in other situations good things can be
> done by enforcing specific type or at least limiting to a subset
> of specific types.
> 
Indeed it doesn't, but perhaps in future we could leave others to work 
out the glaringly obvious for themselves rather than having to 
explicitly provide the counterargument to each single response to a posting?

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