[Types-sig] Type checks

skaller skaller@maxtal.com.au
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:07:53 +1100


Greg Stein wrote:
 
> Python is also very deterministic. "Implementation-defined" really does
> not exist.

	I agree, more or less. There is some indeterminism with
bitwise operators (depends on the underlying C implementation,
which sucks :-)
 
> Errors in Python raise exceptions. That is how it is defined, and that is
> the general style/pattern for the language.

	Not true for assertions.
And type constraints are assertions.

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