Questions about app design - OOP with python classes

[Erik Max Francis]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> A type system doesn't help. So what if they're both floats? The test
> is still bogus, your code will still wait too long to engage the
> retro-rockets, and the billion dollar space craft will still be travelling
> at hundreds of miles an hour when it reaches the surface of Mars.

It was units of momentum that were inappropriately compared, actually. 
(And it broke up before hitting the ground, but that's a minor quibble.)

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