python function parameters, debugging, comments, etc.

[Rotwang]

On 02/10/2013 11:15, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 2 October 2013 00:45, Rotwang <sg552 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> So the upside of duck-typing is clear. But as you've already discovered, so
>> is the downside: Python's dynamic nature means that there's no way for the
>> interpreter to know what kind of arguments a function will accept, and so a
>> user of any function relies on the function having clear documentation.
>
> It is still necessary to document the arguments of functions in
> explicitly typed languages. Knowing that you need a list of strings
> does not mean that you know what the function expects of the values of
> the strings and what it will try to do with them.
>
> [...]

Well, yes. I didn't intend to suggest otherwise.