On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 21:31:32 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Paulo Pinto:
That is an implementation detail I would say,
It's not an implementation detail, it has consequences on the
kind of code you are allowed to write, because it's not really
a dynamic language. After the JIT compilation it's
"statically" typed, with some niceties like the type splitting
you have seen with the x variable. In Julia you can't write all
the programs you can write in Python. But in practice the
limitations are not a problem for the scientific code, and the
advantages are great.
Bye,
bearophile
Maybe we are talking across each other, but JIT code is always
statically typed after native code generation.
The approach taken by Julia is no different than other dynamic
languages that enjoy AOT native compilers.
If you mean Julia allows for less dynamic programming cleverness
as Python, there I agree with you.
I guess I need to play more with it, maybe then I can better
grasp what you mean.
--
Paulo
