PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Thu Jun 21 10:30:50 EDT 2007


On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:11:57AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> "Use another language" is not a technical answer. "Python
> could not adopt static typing without substantially changing
> the language and destroying what everyone loves about it,
> and here are examples of where the problem shows up" is.

The best dynamic-versus-static-typing discussion I've ever
seen, by the way, was Mark-Jason Dominus's (he of
"Higher-Order Perl"):
http://perl.plover.com/yak/typing/notes.html

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