Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Mon Feb 19 09:54:55 EST 2018


On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:28:26 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:

> [1] The most basic question, which people making such claims often can't
> answer, is "Do you mean that values are strongly typed, or that names
> are? Or did you mean that variables are, because if so Python doesn't
> even have variables in the sense that you mean" Programming language
> semantics are complex.

An excellent point.

The distinction between typing *values* and *names* is a good one.



-- 
Steve




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