Strong typing implementation for Python

[Bartc]

On 12/10/2015 03:45, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 10/11/2015 06:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> That's called type inference, and there's nothing innovative about Swift to
>> include that as a feature. Type inference is *old*. The theory behind type
>> inference goes back to 1958, and languages such as ML and OCaml have
>> included it for decades, and yet here we are in 2015 and people think that
>> it's something cool and new :-(
>
> C++ introduced it a while ago (C++11), and D has had it from the
> beginning.  Even lowly FreeBasic has it.

I've surprised Basic needs it. The last time I looked, $A was a string, 
%B an integer, and C a number. Type inference wasn't hard!

(And trying Freebasic, it insists on variables being declared anyway. 
It's rather like C but with Basic syntax.)

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Bartc