On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, John Nilsson <j...@milsson.nu> wrote:
> Is static types really an intensic property of the language? In my mind > any language can be statically typed. It is just more or less hard to do. > Again, please read Gilad Bracha's position paper. He concisely enumerates the ways in which a decision to make a statically typed language inherently affects the design of other parts of the language. Similarly, a dynamically-typed language will allow design decisions that rule out static typing. He does a good job giving examples of the sorts of interactions that may occur. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net )
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