Weak Type Ability for Python

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

	{one more entry in the thread drift, and then I think I'll shut up}

On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:22:47 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
declaimed the following:


>Yeah, the "ADDRESS" command has so much potential. Back in the day, I
>built a MUD with REXX scripting, and within those scripts, the default
>ADDRESS target was "send message to the invoker of the command", so
>you could do something like this:

	I used to think (Open)VMS would have been a potential platform for an
effective ADDRESS command. Where ARexx used a shared memory linked-list for
the "port" (as I'd stated, avoiding copying of data), (Open)VMS had
"mailboxes" (they would have to copy data -- or at best remap the virtual
memory from one process to another) which could serve the same purpose;
receiving application creates/owns the named mailbox, sending applications
would provide the data packet including a return mailbox link.

>
>/* A bare string gets sent to the client */
>"Hello!"
>/* You can still invoke shell commands, if you actually need to */
>address cmd "do_a_thing"
>
	Yeah, that was the other feature -- anything that could not be parsed
as a REXX statement was automatically sent to whatever the current ADDRESS
host happened to be.