OT: This Swift thing

Sturla Molden sturla.molden at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 19:02:59 EDT 2014


Alain Ketterlin <alain at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:

>> Perhaps. Python has strong type safety.
> 
> Come on.

You cannot spoof the type of an object in Python. In C++ you can downcast
any address to void* and make an object be treated as anything. You cannot
make Python treat an int as a float and return garbage. Types in Python are
strictly enforced.

Sturla




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