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

[Michael Hoffman]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:59:28PM -0700, bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com wrote:
>> Then you should use another language.
> 
> This is what I meant about knowing how Internet discussions
> go.

You originally said "Before I ask anything, let me note that this is 
surely an old question that has inspired its share of flame wars; I'm
new to Python, but not new to how Internet discussions work."

In that context, there is no way that this response was a flame. I find 
that Pythoneers want to use the right tool for the job. This isn't 
always Python. It might be Perl, or OCaml, or Java, or C, or JCL. If you 
want static type checking, Python definitely isn't the right tool for you.

If you asked Java programmers why you couldn't turn *off* Java's static 
type checking if you wanted to, you'd probably get a similar response.
-- 
Michael Hoffman