Is duck-typing misnamed?

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 8/26/2016 7:58 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote:
>>
>> "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,... "
>>
>> so there is indeed precedence for this so-called 'duck typing'
>>
>>
>> but wouldn't it be more Pythonic to call this 'witch typing'?
>>
>> "How do you know she is a witch?"
>>
>> "She looks like one."
>
>
> Given that people were once burned to death for 'looking like a witch' (or
> sounding or acting), and can still suffer socially for such reasons, this it
> not funny to me.  We should stick with ducks.
>
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which ducks?


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