Type hinting of Python is just a toy ?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jan 4 11:25:56 EST 2019


On 1/4/2019 4:04 AM, iamybj--- via Python-list wrote:
> In fact, there is only 3 types in all prigramming languages.

'Category' would be a better term.  Better said might be: "One can 
usefully group types/classes of values/objects into 3 categories."

> Primitive type: int, string, bool, char....
> Complex type: struct or class
> Array Type: int[10], string[100], struct[1000]

And tuples are an array class, in particular an immutable and and 
therefore hashable array, and therefore possible members of sets and 
dict keys.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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