Bools and explicitness [was Re: PyWart: The problem with "print"]

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 12:08:23 EDT 2013


On 2013-06-06 16:41, Chris Angelico wrote:

> Anyway, regardless of your language, there's always some criteria that
> can't be coded. Suppose the valid input for a function were "integers
> whose square roots are integers but whose cube roots are not". You
> won't easily get compile-time checking of that.

Say that on a Haskell list, and they'll take it as a challenge. :-)

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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