Python Scalability

[Hans Nowak]

On 26 May 99, Graham Matthews wrote:

> I personally stopped using
> Python for anything beyond scripting because:
> 
> a) it does not provide any form of static typing, something I have
> 	 found to be essential on larger projects.

> To give just one example. I wrote a GUI for a computer algebra system
> using Python and Tk. This wasn't a really large program, but it
> certainly wasn't a scrip either. I spent a good deal of my time
> tracking down runtime typing errors, notably attribute exceptions.

Hmm... A few months ago there was a message by Fred Gansevles, called 
'Behavior injection'. Nobody seemed to pay attention to it, but it 
was actually quite good. It provides Python with a mechanism for, 
among other things, classes with static typing, and private/protected 
attributes. With the behavior injection mechanism, you won't solve 
static typing problem of 'regular' variables, but you will be able to 
address these problems with regard to class attributes.

I think you should be able to find the message in DejaNews... I don't 
know if some example code was attached, but I think you can contact 
Fred for the latest version (he sent me some code too a while ago).

Veel liefs,

--Hans Nowak (ivnowa at hvision.nl)
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